VIP Seminar

Prof. Irene Gamba, Mathematics Department, UT-Austin

"Conservative Solvers for Collisional  Boltzmann and Landau operators in plasma systems"

4:00pm, RLM 11.204

Abstract: We will discuss several aspects of conservative solvers for the kinetic transport equations of particle interactions that involve either linear or non-linear Boltzmann as well as the non-linear Landau equations, by means of stagger conservative DG schemes for the transport part and DG or spectral solvers for the collisional part, linked by a projection method that is conservative. In addition we will discuss the computational aspects of boundary layer formation due to rough boundary effects for insulating conditions.