A conservative high order semi-Lagrangian WENO method for the Vlasov equation

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2009.10.016zbMath1188.82069OpenAlexW1967515013MaRDI QIDQ846541

Jing-Mei Qiu, Andrew J. Christlieb

Publication date: 9 February 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.10.016

zbMATH Keywords

Vlasov equationLandau dampingsemi-Lagrangian methodsWENO reconstructiontwo-stream instabilityconservative schemeoperator splitting methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Vlasov equations (35Q83)

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