An Accurate Numerical Method to Solve the Linear Fokker-Planck Equation Characterizing Charged Particle Transport in Spherical Plasmas

1981 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Tran ◽  
J. Ligou
Keyword(s):  
Charged Particle ◽  
Numerical Method ◽  
Particle Transport ◽  
Planck Equation ◽  
Fokker Planck Equation ◽  
Charged Particle Transport ◽  
Fokker Planck

A new analysis of a numerical method for the time-fractional Fokker–Planck equation with general forcing

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 1217-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Huang ◽  
Kim Ngan Le ◽  
Martin Stynes
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Method ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Planck Equation ◽  
Stability And Convergence ◽  
Time Stability ◽  
Backward Euler Scheme ◽  
Fokker Planck Equation ◽  
Backward Euler ◽  
Numer Anal ◽  
Fokker Planck

Abstract First, a new convergence analysis is given for the semidiscrete (finite elements in space) numerical method that is used in Le et al. (2016, Numerical solution of the time-fractional Fokker–Planck equation with general forcing. SIAM J. Numer. Anal.,54 1763–1784) to solve the time-fractional Fokker–Planck equation on a domain $\varOmega \times [0,T]$ with general forcing, i.e., where the forcing term is a function of both space and time. Stability and convergence are proved in a fractional norm that is stronger than the $L^2(\varOmega )$ norm used in the above paper. Furthermore, unlike the bounds proved in Le et al., the constant multipliers in our analysis do not blow up as the order of the fractional derivative $\alpha $ approaches the classical value of $1$. Secondly, for the semidiscrete (L1 scheme in time) method for the same Fokker–Planck problem, we present a new $L^2(\varOmega )$ convergence proof that avoids a flaw in the analysis of Le et al.’s paper for the semidiscrete (backward Euler scheme in time) method.

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