VR-PIC: An entropic variance-reduction method for particle-in-cell solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson equation
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| author | Windhab, Victor Adelmann, Andreas Sadr, Mohsen |
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| contents | We extend the recently developed entropic and conservative variance reduction framework [M. Sadr, N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, A variance-reduced direct Monte Carlo simulation method for solving the Boltzmann equation over a wide range of rarefaction, Journal of Computational Physics 472 (2023) 111677.] to the particle-in-cell (PIC) method of solving Vlasov-Poisson equation. We show that a zeroth-order approximation that freezes the importance weights during the velocity-space kick is stable at the expense of introducing bias. Then, we propose a correction for the weight distribution using maximum cross-entropy formulation to ensure conservation laws while minimizing the introduced bias. In several test cases including Sod's shock tube and Landau damping we show that the proposed method maintains the substantial speed-up of variance reduction method compared to the PIC simulations in the low signal regime with minimal changes to the simulation code. |
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| spellingShingle | VR-PIC: An entropic variance-reduction method for particle-in-cell solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson equation Windhab, Victor Adelmann, Andreas Sadr, Mohsen Computational Physics Plasma Physics Computation We extend the recently developed entropic and conservative variance reduction framework [M. Sadr, N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, A variance-reduced direct Monte Carlo simulation method for solving the Boltzmann equation over a wide range of rarefaction, Journal of Computational Physics 472 (2023) 111677.] to the particle-in-cell (PIC) method of solving Vlasov-Poisson equation. We show that a zeroth-order approximation that freezes the importance weights during the velocity-space kick is stable at the expense of introducing bias. Then, we propose a correction for the weight distribution using maximum cross-entropy formulation to ensure conservation laws while minimizing the introduced bias. In several test cases including Sod's shock tube and Landau damping we show that the proposed method maintains the substantial speed-up of variance reduction method compared to the PIC simulations in the low signal regime with minimal changes to the simulation code. |
| title | VR-PIC: An entropic variance-reduction method for particle-in-cell solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson equation |
| topic | Computational Physics Plasma Physics Computation |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15041 |