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相对论PIC方法的显式能量守恒修正

Explicit energy-conserving modification of relativistic PIC method

Arkady Gonoskov

AI总结:

本文提出一种显式能量守恒修正的PIC方法,通过改变时间步长分裂强制守恒,兼容多种改进,并在π-PIC代码中实现,验证了其在大步长下的稳定性。

摘要:

显式粒子网格(PIC)方法在相对论等离子体模拟中的应用受到数值加热和不稳定性的限制,这些因素可能显著约束时间和空间步长的选择。为部分消除这些限制,我们考虑通过改变标准时间步长分裂来强制实现精确能量守恒的可能性。我们不再在给定场中更新粒子,然后使用它们产生的电流更新场,而是考虑描述单个粒子与附近节点场耦合的子系统,并依次对所有粒子强制执行能量守恒求解,最后以零电流进行场更新。这种方法与多种改进兼容,从考虑额外物理效应到使用无数值色散场求解器、高阶权重形状和粒子推进子循环。为便于进一步考虑和使用,我们在三维相对论谱代码π-PIC中提供了基本实现,并将其公开。该方法及其实现通过冷等离子体振荡、朗道阻尼和相对论双流不稳定性模拟进行了验证。该方法处理大时间和空间步长的能力在强入射辐射加热等离子体问题中得到展示。

英文摘要:

The use of explicit particle-in-cell (PIC) method for relativistic plasma simulations is restricted by numerical heating and instabilities that may significantly constrain the choice of time and space steps. To partially eliminate these limitations we consider a possibility to enforce exact energy conservation by altering the standard time step splitting. Instead of updating particles in a given field and then the field using the current they produce, we consider subsystems that describe the coupling of a single particle and the field at the nearby nodes and solve them with enforced energy conservation sequentially for all particles, which is completed by the field update with zero current. Such an approach is compatible with various advances, ranging from accounting for additional physical effects to the use of numerical-dispersion-free field solvers, high-order weighting shapes and particle push subcycling. To facilitate further considerations and use, we provide a basic implementation in a 3D, relativistic, spectral code $π$-PIC, which we make publicly available. The method and its implementations are verified using simulations of cold plasma oscillations, Landau damping and relativistic two-stream instability. The capabilities of the method to deal with large time and space steps are demonstrated in the problem of plasma heating by intense incident radiation.

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