TY - JOUR T1 - A Characteristic Mapping Method for Vlasov-Poisson with Extreme Resolution Properties AU - Krah , Philipp AU - Yin , Xi-Yuan AU - Bergmann , Julius AU - Nave , Jean-Christophe AU - Schneider , Kai JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 4 SP - 905 EP - 937 PY - 2024 DA - 2024/05 SN - 35 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2024-0012 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/23089.html KW - Characteristic mapping method, kinetic equations, Vlasov-Poisson, plasma. AB -

We propose an efficient semi-Lagrangian characteristic mapping method for solving the one+one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equations with high precision on a coarse grid. The flow map is evolved numerically and exponential resolution in linear time is obtained. Global third-order convergence in space and time is shown and conservation properties are assessed. For benchmarking, we consider linear and nonlinear Landau damping and the two-stream instability. We compare the results with a Fourier pseudo-spectral method and results from the literature. The extreme fine-scale resolution features are illustrated showing the method’s capabilities to efficiently treat filamentation in fusion plasma simulations.