Convergence of a Difference Scheme for the Vlasov--Poisson--Fokker--Planck System in One Dimension
Convergence of a Difference Scheme for the Vlasov--Poisson--Fokker--Planck System in One Dimension
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DOI:
10.1137/s0036142996302554
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发表时间:
1998-06
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Jack Schaeffer
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作者:
Jack Schaeffer
A finite difference scheme is proposed for the periodic one-dimensional Vlasov--Poisson--Fokker--Planck system which is related to the scheme in [C.\ Cheng and G.\ Knorr, {\em J. Comp.\ Phys}., 22 (1976), pp. 330--351]. The density $f \left( t,x,v \right) $ and the electric field $E \left(t,x \right) $ are shown to converge to the exact solution values in $L^{2}$ and $L^{\infty }$, respectively. The rate of convergence is essentially first order. This scheme has been implemented in [J.\ Schaeffer, Center for Nonlinear Analysis Research Report 97-NA-004, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997] and compares favorably with a random particle method.