Finite time step and spatial grid effects in simulation of warm plasmas

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.10.055MaRDI QIDQ2374955zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Scott E. Parker, Benjamin J. M. Sturdevant

Publication date 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2015.10.055

zbMATH Keywords

numerical stabilitynumerical dispersionparticle-in-cellplasma simulationtime integrationimplicit methods\(\delta\) method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M75) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3196612 (Why is no real title available?)
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(5)

• On the influence of a grid on temperature evaluation in the particle-in-cell method
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• Finite-grid instability in quasineutral hybrid simulations
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• Eliminating finite-grid instabilities in gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations

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