Application of High Dimensional B-Spline Interpolation in Solving the Gyro-Kinetic Vlasov Equation Based on Semi-Lagrangian Method

Application of High Dimensional B-Spline Interpolation in Solving the Gyro-Kinetic Vlasov Equation Based on Semi-Lagrangian Method

Year:    2017

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 22 (2017), Iss. 3 : pp. 789–802

Abstract

The computation efficiency of high dimensional (3D and 4D) B-spline interpolation, constructed by classical tensor product method, is improved greatly by precomputing the B-spline function. This is due to the character of NLT code, i.e. only the linearised characteristics are needed so that the unperturbed orbit as well as values of the B-spline function at interpolation points can be precomputed at the beginning of the simulation. By integrating this fixed point interpolation algorithm into NLT code, the high dimensional gyro-kinetic Vlasov equation can be solved directly without operator splitting method which is applied in conventional semi-Lagrangian codes. In the Rosenbluth-Hinton test, NLT runs a few times faster for Vlasov solver part and converges at about one order larger time step than conventional splitting code.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2016-0092

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 22 (2017), Iss. 3 : pp. 789–802

Published online:    2017-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    14

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