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Main Authors: Habbershaw, Evan, Hauck, Cory D., Hu, Jingwei, Haack, Jeffrey R.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11775
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author Habbershaw, Evan
Hauck, Cory D.
Hu, Jingwei
Haack, Jeffrey R.
author_facet Habbershaw, Evan
Hauck, Cory D.
Hu, Jingwei
Haack, Jeffrey R.
contents A multi-species Fokker-Planck model for simulating particle collisions in a plasma is presented. The model includes various parameters that must be tuned. Under reasonable assumptions on these parameters, the model satisfies appropriate conservation laws, dissipates an entropy, and satisfies an $\mathcal{H}$-Theorem. In addition, the model parameters provide the additional flexibility that is used to match simultaneously momentum and temperature relaxation formulas derived from the Boltzmann collision operator for a binary mixture with Coulomb potentials. A numerical method for solving the resulting space-homogeneous kinetic equation is presented and two examples are provided to demonstrate the relaxation of species bulk velocities and temperatures to their equilibrium values.
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spellingShingle A Nonlinear, Conservative, Entropic Fokker-Planck Model for Multi-Species Collisions
Habbershaw, Evan
Hauck, Cory D.
Hu, Jingwei
Haack, Jeffrey R.
Mathematical Physics
A multi-species Fokker-Planck model for simulating particle collisions in a plasma is presented. The model includes various parameters that must be tuned. Under reasonable assumptions on these parameters, the model satisfies appropriate conservation laws, dissipates an entropy, and satisfies an $\mathcal{H}$-Theorem. In addition, the model parameters provide the additional flexibility that is used to match simultaneously momentum and temperature relaxation formulas derived from the Boltzmann collision operator for a binary mixture with Coulomb potentials. A numerical method for solving the resulting space-homogeneous kinetic equation is presented and two examples are provided to demonstrate the relaxation of species bulk velocities and temperatures to their equilibrium values.
title A Nonlinear, Conservative, Entropic Fokker-Planck Model for Multi-Species Collisions
topic Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11775