Abstract
Mathematical symmetries of the Beliaev-Budker kernel are the most important structure of the relativistic Landau-Fokker-Planck equation. In most numerical simulations, however, one of the symmetries is not preserved in the discrete level resulting in a violation of the energy conservation. Recently, we proposed a charge-momentum-energy-conserving relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell scheme by preserving mathematical formulas in discrete form, and here we apply the concept to the relativistic Landau-Fokker-Planck equation. Through a numerical experiment of relativistic collisional relaxation, a mass-momentum-energy-conserving simulation has been demonstrated without any artificial constraints.
- Received 21 February 2019
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.99.053309
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