A P-Adaptive Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method for Electrostatic Particle-in-Cell Simulations
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| author | Ott, Tobias Copplestone, Stephen Pfeiffer, Marcel |
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| contents | This paper presents a p-adaptive high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (HDG-SEM) for solving the Poisson equation in electrostatic plasma simulations using particle-in-cell (PIC) schemes. This approach enables element-local refinement of the polynomial degree, concentrating computational effort specifically in regions with strong gradients. Thus, the method significantly reduces the global number of degrees of freedom compared to uniform high-order methods. The proposed method is implemented in the open-source framework PICLas and validated through a series of benchmark test cases, including a dielectric sphere and a one-dimensional plasma sheath. Finally, a two-dimensional axisymmetric simulation of an ion optic demonstrates the method's capability to efficiently model complex plasma phenomena but also highlights current limitations. |
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| spellingShingle | A P-Adaptive Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method for Electrostatic Particle-in-Cell Simulations Ott, Tobias Copplestone, Stephen Pfeiffer, Marcel Computational Physics This paper presents a p-adaptive high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (HDG-SEM) for solving the Poisson equation in electrostatic plasma simulations using particle-in-cell (PIC) schemes. This approach enables element-local refinement of the polynomial degree, concentrating computational effort specifically in regions with strong gradients. Thus, the method significantly reduces the global number of degrees of freedom compared to uniform high-order methods. The proposed method is implemented in the open-source framework PICLas and validated through a series of benchmark test cases, including a dielectric sphere and a one-dimensional plasma sheath. Finally, a two-dimensional axisymmetric simulation of an ion optic demonstrates the method's capability to efficiently model complex plasma phenomena but also highlights current limitations. |
| title | A P-Adaptive Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method for Electrostatic Particle-in-Cell Simulations |
| topic | Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00782 |