Fast elliptic solvers in cylindrical coordinates and the Coulomb collision operator

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2011.07.005zbMATH Open1432.31002arXiv1102.2033OpenAlexW2033794628MaRDI QIDQ648046FDOQ648046

Authors: Andras Pataki, Leslie Greengard 

Publication date: 22 November 2011

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we describe a new class of fast solvers for separable elliptic partial differential equations in cylindrical coordinates $(r,heta,z)$ with free-space radiation conditions. By combining integral equation methods in the radial variable $r$ with Fourier methods in $heta$ and $z$, we show that high-order accuracy can be achieved in both the governing potential and its derivatives. A weak singularity arises in the Fourier transform with respect to $z$ that is handled with special purpose quadratures. We show how these solvers can be applied to the evaluation of the Coulomb collision operator in kinetic models of ionized gases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2033

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zbMATH Keywords

Poisson equationbiharmonic equationplasma physicsfast solverscollision operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Numerical methods in Fourier analysis (65T99) Biharmonic, polyharmonic functions and equations, Poisson's equation in two dimensions (31A30)

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Uses Software

• Matlab

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