Charge-conserving grid based methods for the Vlasov–Maxwell equations

Nicolas Crouseilles; Pierre Navaro; Éric Sonnendrücker

doi:10.1016/j.crme.2014.06.012

Theoretical and numerical approaches for Vlasov–Maxwell equations

Charge-conserving grid based methods for the Vlasov–Maxwell equations

Nicolas Crouseilles ¹; Pierre Navaro ²; Éric Sonnendrücker ^3,⁴

¹ Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, IPSO Project, France
² IRMA – CNRS & Université de Strasbourg, France
³ Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
⁴ Mathematics Center, TU Munich, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85747 Garching, Germany

Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Theoretical and numerical approaches for Vlasov-maxwell equations, Volume 342 (2014) no. 10-11, pp. 636-646.

Abstract

In this article, we introduce numerical schemes for the Vlasov–Maxwell equations relying on different kinds of grid-based Vlasov solvers, as opposite to PIC schemes, which enforce a discrete continuity equation. The idea underlying these schemes relies on a time-splitting scheme between configuration space and velocity space for the Vlasov equation and on the computation of the discrete current in a form that is compatible with the discrete Maxwell solver.

Received: 2014-04-11
Accepted: 2014-06-10
Published online: 2014-08-07

DOI: 10.1016/j.crme.2014.06.012

Keywords: Maxwell–Vlasov system, Discrete continuity equation, Finite volume method, Spectral method, Semi-Lagrangian method

Author's affiliations:

Nicolas Crouseilles ¹; Pierre Navaro ²; Éric Sonnendrücker ^{3, 4}

¹ Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, IPSO Project, France
² IRMA – CNRS & Université de Strasbourg, France
³ Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
⁴ Mathematics Center, TU Munich, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85747 Garching, Germany

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Nicolas Crouseilles; Pierre Navaro; Éric Sonnendrücker. Charge-conserving grid based methods for the Vlasov–Maxwell equations. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Theoretical and numerical approaches for Vlasov-maxwell equations, Volume 342 (2014) no. 10-11, pp. 636-646. doi : 10.1016/j.crme.2014.06.012. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/articles/10.1016/j.crme.2014.06.012/

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