Theoretical physics

Modelling, Theory, and Computational Plasma Physics

Typical interactions in most plasma systems involve length scales varying over orders of magnitude from kinetic to macroscopic fluid scales. Modeling of these interactions requires multiscale modeling of small-scale processes. In order to develop such models insight gained from multiscale adaptive mesh refinement simulations and even multiscale-multiphysics simulations coupling kinetic and fluid-like descriptions are necessary. Full six-dimensional Vlasov simulations have started to be feasible with the introduction of massive parallel machines like BlueGene or new techniques based on graphics card computing.