1LMD-CNRS-IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France 2IRMA-CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 7 rue Ren-Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France 3M2P2-CNRS and CMI, Université d’Aix-Marseille, 38 rue Frdric Joliot-Curie, 13451 Marseille Cedex 13, France
A new numerical scheme called particle-in-wavelets is proposed for the Vlasov-Poisson equations, and tested in the simplest case of one spatial dimension. The plasma distribution function is discretized using tracer particles, and the charge distribution is reconstructed using wavelet-based density estimation. The latter consists in projecting the Delta distributions corresponding to the particles onto a finite dimensional linear space spanned by a family of wavelets, which is chosen adaptively. The stability and accuracy of the scheme is supported by numerical computations of Landau damping and of the two-stream instability. By direct comparison with a reference solution obtained by a very precise semi-Lagrangian method, we show that the precision is improved roughly by a factor 3 compared to a classical PIC scheme, for a given number of particles.
Romain Nguyen van yen 
1
;
Éric Sonnendrücker 
2
,
1
;
Kai Schneider 
3
;
Marie Farge 
1
,
2
,
3
1
LMD-CNRS-IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France
2
IRMA-CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 7 rue Ren-Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
3
M2P2-CNRS and CMI, Université d’Aix-Marseille, 38 rue Frdric Joliot-Curie, 13451 Marseille Cedex 13, France
Romain Nguyen van yen; Éric Sonnendrücker; Kai Schneider; Marie Farge. Particle-in-wavelets scheme for the 1D Vlasov-Poisson equations. ESAIM. Proceedings, Tome 32 (2011), pp. 134-148. doi: 10.1051/proc/2011017
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