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Discrete Unified Gas Kinetic Scheme for a Reformulated BGK-Vlasov-Poisson System in All Electrostatic Plasma Regimes
Computer Physics Communications
  • Hongtao Liu
  • Feng Shi
  • Jie Wan
  • Xiaoming He, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Yong Cao
Abstract

In this paper, the discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS), which is a novel direct kinetic method, is developed for a reformulated BGK-Vlasov-Poisson system in all electrostatic plasma regimes characterized by a wide range of Knudsen number and normalized Debye length. The current scheme is constructed for multiscale plasma simulation, while the temporal and spatial step sizes of the method are not restricted by the Knudsen number and normalized Debye length. One key feature of this method is the un-splitting treatment of the particle transport, collision and acceleration in both the distribution function evolution and the numerical flux evaluation, which enables the method to economically and accurately provide a satisfactory solution for all Knudsen number regimes. With the coupling of the appropriate time discretization of the distribution function and a reformulated Poisson equation, the method further provides an easy-to-implement and efficient way for the investigation of electrical potential in all normalized Debye regimes. As a result, the proposed DUGKS becomes an asymptotic preserving scheme, which automatically degenerates to be consistent with the discretization of corresponding limiting models. Several numerical experiments in different electrostatic plasma regimes are presented to validate the proposed method.

Department(s)
Mathematics and Statistics
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Comments
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant 11175052
Keywords and Phrases
  • Asymptotic preserving scheme,
  • Collisional Vlasov-Poisson,
  • Gas kinetic method,
  • Multiscale plasma simulation
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2021 Elsevier, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
10-1-2020
Publication Date
01 Oct 2020
Citation Information
Hongtao Liu, Feng Shi, Jie Wan, Xiaoming He, et al.. "Discrete Unified Gas Kinetic Scheme for a Reformulated BGK-Vlasov-Poisson System in All Electrostatic Plasma Regimes" Computer Physics Communications Vol. 255 (2020) ISSN: 0010-4655
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/xiaoming-he/78/