Simulation of multi-species kinetic instabilities with the Numerical Flow Iteration

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Main Authors: Wilhelm, Rostislav-Paul, Torrilhon, Manuel
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author Wilhelm, Rostislav-Paul
Torrilhon, Manuel
author_facet Wilhelm, Rostislav-Paul
Torrilhon, Manuel
contents Kinetic instabilities are one of the most challenging aspects in computational plasma physics. Accurately capturing their onset and evolution requires fine resolution of the high-dimensional distribution functions of each relevant species, which quickly becomes computationally prohibitively expensive. Additionally, plasma dynamics is an inherently multi-scale phenomenon due to the vast separation of scales between heavy ions and light-weight electrons. In previous work the Numerical Flow Iteration (NuFI) was suggested as a high-fidelity alternative with reduced memory complexity making it an interesting candidate to simulate complicated kinetic instabilities. In this work we extend NuFI to non-periodic boundary conditions and demonstrate how it is possible to reduce the computational complexity to allow for longer simulation periods.
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spellingShingle Simulation of multi-species kinetic instabilities with the Numerical Flow Iteration
Wilhelm, Rostislav-Paul
Torrilhon, Manuel
Plasma Physics
Computational Physics
Kinetic instabilities are one of the most challenging aspects in computational plasma physics. Accurately capturing their onset and evolution requires fine resolution of the high-dimensional distribution functions of each relevant species, which quickly becomes computationally prohibitively expensive. Additionally, plasma dynamics is an inherently multi-scale phenomenon due to the vast separation of scales between heavy ions and light-weight electrons. In previous work the Numerical Flow Iteration (NuFI) was suggested as a high-fidelity alternative with reduced memory complexity making it an interesting candidate to simulate complicated kinetic instabilities. In this work we extend NuFI to non-periodic boundary conditions and demonstrate how it is possible to reduce the computational complexity to allow for longer simulation periods.
title Simulation of multi-species kinetic instabilities with the Numerical Flow Iteration
topic Plasma Physics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02405