A particle-in-cell method for the simulation of plasmas based on an unconditionally stable field solver

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2016.08.006zbMath1373.76275MaRDI QIDQ1674672

Andrew J. Christlieb, Matthew F. Causley, Eric M. Wolf, Matthew T. Bettencourt

Publication date: 26 October 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2016.08.006

zbMATH Keywords

computational plasma physics; particle-in-cell; unconditionally stable field solver

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M28: Particle methods and lattice-gas methods

65M20: Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

76X05: Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow

35Q83: Vlasov equations

Uses Software

• VORPAL
• Vador
• Pegasus
• H-VLPL
• 2D2V