Hamiltonian Particle-in-Cell methods for Vlasov-Poisson equations

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2022.111472arXiv2204.08214WikidataQ114163230 ScholiaQ114163230MaRDI QIDQ6396751FDOQ6396751

Publication date: 18 April 2022

Abstract: In this paper, Particle-in-Cell algorithms for the Vlasov-Poisson system are presented based on its Poisson bracket structure. The Poisson equation is solved by finite element methods, in which the appropriate finite element spaces are taken to guarantee that the semi-discretized system possesses a well defined discrete Poisson bracket structure. Then, splitting methods are applied to the semi-discretized system by decomposing the Hamiltonian function. The resulting discretizations are proved to be Poisson bracket preserving. Moreover, the conservative quantities of the system are also well preserved. In numerical experiments, we use the presented numerical methods to simulate various physical phenomena. Due to the huge computational effort of the practical computations, we employ the strategy of parallel computing. The numerical results verify the efficiency of the new derived numerical discretizations.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Qxx) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65Mxx) Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) (82Cxx)

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