A fully implicit, conservative, non-linear, electromagnetic hybrid particle-ion/fluid-electron algorithm

Stanier, A.; Chacón, L.; Chen, G.

doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2018.09.038

A fully implicit, conservative, non-linear, electromagnetic hybrid particle-ion/fluid-electron algorithm

Journal Article · Thu Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Journal of Computational Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2018.09.038· OSTI ID:1477697

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The quasi-neutral hybrid model with kinetic ions and fluid electrons is a promising approach for bridging the inherent multi-scale nature of many problems in space and laboratory plasmas. A novel, implicit, particle-in-cell based scheme for the hybrid model is derived for fully 3D electromagnetic problems with multiple ion species, which features global mass, momentum and energy conservation. The scheme includes sub-cycling and orbit-averaging for the ions, with cell-centered finite differences and implicit midpoint time advance. To reduce discrete particle noise, the scheme allows arbitrary-order shape functions for the particle-mesh interpolations and the application of conservative binomial smoothing. The algorithm is verified for a number of test problems to demonstrate the correctness of the implementation, the unique conservation properties, and the favorable stability properties of the new scheme. In particular, there is no indication of unstable growth of the finite-grid instability for a population of cold ions drifting through a uniform spatial mesh, in a set-up where several commonly used non-conservative schemes are highly unstable.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) (SC-21)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1477697

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1756197

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-21708

Journal Information:: Journal of Computational Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Computational Physics Vol. 376; ISSN 0021-9991

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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