Some examples of kinetic scheme whose diffusion limit is Il'in's exponential-fitting

2017/09/20 by Gosse, Laurent, Vauchelet, Nicolas
#Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1709.06891

Abstract

This paper is concerned with diffusive approximations of peculiar numerical schemes for several linear (or weakly nonlinear) kinetic models which are motivated by wide-range applications, including radiative transfer or neutron transport, run-and-tumble models of chemotaxis dynamics, and Vlasov-Fokker-Planck plasma modeling. The well-balanced method applied to such kinetic equations leads to time-marching schemes involving a '' scattering S-matrix '' , itself derived from a normal modes decomposition of the stationary solution. One common feature these models share is the type of diffusive approximation: their macroscopic densities solve drift-diffusion systems, for which a distinguished numerical scheme is Il'in/Scharfetter-Gummel's '' exponential fitting '' discretization. We prove that the well-balanced schemes relax, within a parabolic rescaling, towards the Il'in exponential-fitting discretization by means of an appropriate decomposition of the S-matrix. This is the so-called asymptotic preserving (or uniformly accurate) property.

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