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An Entropic Scheme for an Angular Moment Model for the Classical Fokker-Planck-Landau Equation of Electrons

Jessy Mallet, Stéphane Brull & Bruno Dubroca

Commun. Comput. Phys., 15 (2014), pp. 422-450.

Published online: 2014-02

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In plasma physics domain, the electron transport is described with the Fokker-Planck-Landau equation. The direct numerical solution of the kinetic equation is usually intractable due to the large number of independent variables. That is why we propose in this paper a new model whose derivation is based on an angular closure in the phase space and retains only the energy of particles as kinetic dimension. To find a solution compatible with physics conditions, the closure of the moment system is obtained under a minimum entropy principle. This model is proved to satisfy the fundamental properties like a H theorem. Moreover, an entropic discretization in the velocity variable is proposed on the semi-discrete model. Finally, we validate on numerical test cases the fundamental properties of the full discrete model.

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@Article{CiCP-15-422, author = {Jessy Mallet, Stéphane Brull and Bruno Dubroca}, title = {An Entropic Scheme for an Angular Moment Model for the Classical Fokker-Planck-Landau Equation of Electrons}, journal = {Communications in Computational Physics}, year = {2014}, volume = {15}, number = {2}, pages = {422--450}, abstract = {

In plasma physics domain, the electron transport is described with the Fokker-Planck-Landau equation. The direct numerical solution of the kinetic equation is usually intractable due to the large number of independent variables. That is why we propose in this paper a new model whose derivation is based on an angular closure in the phase space and retains only the energy of particles as kinetic dimension. To find a solution compatible with physics conditions, the closure of the moment system is obtained under a minimum entropy principle. This model is proved to satisfy the fundamental properties like a H theorem. Moreover, an entropic discretization in the velocity variable is proposed on the semi-discrete model. Finally, we validate on numerical test cases the fundamental properties of the full discrete model.

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In plasma physics domain, the electron transport is described with the Fokker-Planck-Landau equation. The direct numerical solution of the kinetic equation is usually intractable due to the large number of independent variables. That is why we propose in this paper a new model whose derivation is based on an angular closure in the phase space and retains only the energy of particles as kinetic dimension. To find a solution compatible with physics conditions, the closure of the moment system is obtained under a minimum entropy principle. This model is proved to satisfy the fundamental properties like a H theorem. Moreover, an entropic discretization in the velocity variable is proposed on the semi-discrete model. Finally, we validate on numerical test cases the fundamental properties of the full discrete model.

Jessy Mallet, Stéphane Brull and Bruno Dubroca. (2014). An Entropic Scheme for an Angular Moment Model for the Classical Fokker-Planck-Landau Equation of Electrons. Communications in Computational Physics. 15 (2). 422-450. doi:10.4208/cicp.050612.030513a
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