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| author | Fu, Yichen Angus, Justin R. Qin, Hong Geyko, Vasily I. |
| author_facet | Fu, Yichen Angus, Justin R. Qin, Hong Geyko, Vasily I. |
| contents | Coulomb collision is a fundamental diffusion process in plasmas that can be described by the Landau-Fokker-Planck (LFP) equation or the stochastic differential equation (SDE). While energy and momentum are conserved exactly in the LFP equation, they are conserved only on average by the conventional corresponding SDEs, suggesting that the underlying stochastic process may not be well-defined by such SDEs. In this study, we derive new SDEs with exact energy-momentum conservation for the Coulomb collision by factorizing the collective effect of field particles into individual particles and enforcing Newton's third law. These SDEs, when interpreted in the Stratonovich sense, have a particularly simple form that represents pure diffusion between particles without drag. Numerical algorithms that preserve discrete conservation laws are developed and benchmarked in various relaxation processes. Techniques to reduce computational complexity are also discussed. |
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| spellingShingle | Energy-momentum-conserving stochastic differential equations and algorithms for nonlinear Landau-Fokker-Planck equation Fu, Yichen Angus, Justin R. Qin, Hong Geyko, Vasily I. Plasma Physics Computational Physics Coulomb collision is a fundamental diffusion process in plasmas that can be described by the Landau-Fokker-Planck (LFP) equation or the stochastic differential equation (SDE). While energy and momentum are conserved exactly in the LFP equation, they are conserved only on average by the conventional corresponding SDEs, suggesting that the underlying stochastic process may not be well-defined by such SDEs. In this study, we derive new SDEs with exact energy-momentum conservation for the Coulomb collision by factorizing the collective effect of field particles into individual particles and enforcing Newton's third law. These SDEs, when interpreted in the Stratonovich sense, have a particularly simple form that represents pure diffusion between particles without drag. Numerical algorithms that preserve discrete conservation laws are developed and benchmarked in various relaxation processes. Techniques to reduce computational complexity are also discussed. |
| title | Energy-momentum-conserving stochastic differential equations and algorithms for nonlinear Landau-Fokker-Planck equation |
| topic | Plasma Physics Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12079 |