Invited Lecture
A second-order asymptotic-preserving and positivity-preserving exponential Runge-Kutta method for a class of stiff kinetic equations
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract
We introduce a second-order time discretization method for stiff kinetic equations. The method is asymptotic-preserving (AP) - can capture the Euler limit without numerically resolving the small Knudsen number; and positivity-preserving - can preserve the non-negativity of the solution which is a probability density function for arbitrary Knudsen numbers. The method is based on a new formulation of the exponential Runge-Kutta method and can be applied to a large class of stiff kinetic equations including the BGK equation (relaxation type), the Fokker-Planck equation (diffusion type), and even the full Boltzmann equation (nonlinear integral type). Furthermore, we show that when coupled with suitable spatial discretizations the fully discrete scheme satisfies an entropy-decay property. Various numerical results are provided to demonstrate the theoretical properties of the method.
This is joint work with Ruiwen Shu (University of Maryland).
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