Sparse-grid discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Vlasov–Poisson–Lenard–Bernstein model

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Abstract

Sparse-grid methods have recently gained interest in reducing the computational cost of solving high-dimensional kinetic equations. In this paper, we construct adaptive and hybrid sparse-grid methods for the Vlasov–Poisson–Lenard–Bernstein (VPLB) model. This model has applications to plasma physics and is simulated in two reduced geometries: a 0x3v space homogeneous geometry and a 1x3v slab geometry. We use the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method as a base discretization due to its high-order accuracy and ability to preserve important structural properties of partial differential equations. We utilize a multiwavelet basis expansion to determine the sparse-grid basis and the adaptive mesh criteria. We analyze the proposed sparse-grid methods on a suite of three test problems by computing the savings afforded by sparse-grids in comparison to standard solutions of the DG method. The results are obtained using the adaptive sparse-grid discretization library ASGarD.

Original languageEnglish
Article number113053
JournalJournal of Computational Physics
Volume510
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1 2024

Funding

This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).This material is based upon work partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, as part of their Applied Mathematics Research Program; the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Science as part of their Fusion Research Energy Program; and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. De-AC05-00OR22725. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.Stefan Schnake, Coleman Kendrick, Eirik Endeve, Miroslav Stoyanov, Steven Hahn, Cory D. Hauck, David L. Green, Phil Snyder, and John Canik report financial support was provided by US Department of Energy. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Keywords

  • Discontinuous Galerkin
  • Implicit-explicit
  • Kinetic equation
  • Lenard–Bernstein
  • Sparse grids
  • Vlasov–Poisson

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