Recurrence Phenomenon for Vlasov-Poisson Simulations on Regular Finite Element Mesh

Recurrence Phenomenon for Vlasov-Poisson Simulations on Regular Finite Element Mesh

Year:    2020

Author:    Michel Mehrenberger, Laurent Navoret, Nhung Pham

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 28 (2020), Iss. 3 : pp. 877–901

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on one difficulty arising in the numerical simulation of the Vlasov-Poisson system: when using a regular grid-based solver with periodic boundary conditions, perturbations present at the initial time artificially reappear at a later time. For regular finite-element mesh in velocity, we show that this recurrence time is actually linked to the spectral accuracy of the velocity quadrature when computing the charge density. In particular, choosing trigonometric quadrature weights optimally defers the occurrence of the recurrence phenomenon. Numerical results using the Semi-Lagrangian Discontinuous Galerkin and the Finite Element/Semi-Lagrangian method confirm the analysis.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2019-0022

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 28 (2020), Iss. 3 : pp. 877–901

Published online:    2020-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    25

Keywords:    Finite element mesh Vlasov-Poisson system Semi-Lagrangian Discontinuous Galerkin method trigonometric quadrature.

Author Details

Michel Mehrenberger

Laurent Navoret

Nhung Pham

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