A three-dimensional electrostatic particle-in-cell methodology on unstructured Delaunay-Voronoi grids

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2009.02.003zbMath1175.82056OpenAlexW1981627648MaRDI QIDQ1025133

Nikolaos A. Gatsonis, Anton Spirkin

Publication date: 18 June 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.02.003

zbMATH Keywords

Delaunay-Voronoithree-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC)unstructured PIC

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Vlasov equations (35Q83) Finite volume methods, finite integration techniques applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M12)

Related Items (5)

Continuously differentiable PIC shape functions for triangular meshes ⋮ A parallel electrostatic particle-in-cell method on unstructured tetrahedral grids for large-scale bounded collisionless plasma simulations ⋮ Voronoi-cell finite difference method for accurate electronic structure calculation of polyatomic molecules on unstructured grids ⋮ Mitigation of the self-force effect in unstructured PIC codes using generalized moving least squares ⋮ Investigation of rarefied supersonic flows into rectangular nanochannels using a three-dimensional direct simulation Monte Carlo method

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Simultaneous potential and circuit solutions for two-dimensional bounded plasma simulation codes
• Algorithms for accurate collection, ejection, and loading in particle simulations
• Plasma self-heating and saturation due to numerical instabilities
• Simultaneous potential and circuit solution for 1D bounded plasma particle simulation codes
• Dynamic load balancing for a 2D concurrent plasma PIC code
• 3D electromagnetic plasma simulations on a MIMD parallel computer
• An object-oriented parallel particle-in-cell code for beam dynamics simulation in linear accelerators.
• A finite volume method for solving Maxwell equations in inhomogeneous media on arbitrary meshes
• A finite element formulation of the Darwin PIC model for use on unstructured grids
• High-order nodal discontinuous Galerkin particle-in-cell method on unstructured grids
• Time-reversible difference procedures
• A vectorized particle tracer for unstructured grids
• Direct simulation of gas flows at the molecular level
• ASPECTS OF 2-D DELAUNAY MESH GENERATION
• Secular and Nonsecular Behavior for the Cold Plasma Equations

This page was built for publication: A three-dimensional electrostatic particle-in-cell methodology on unstructured Delaunay-Voronoi grids