The energy conserving particle-in-cell method

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2011.05.033zbMath1231.82067arXiv1108.1959OpenAlexW2079467040MaRDI QIDQ655024

Giovanni Lapenta, Stefano Markidis

Publication date: 28 December 2011

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1959

zbMATH Keywords

energy conserving particle-in-cell methodfully implicit particle-in-cell methodkinetic plasma simulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30)

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