Numerical instability due to relativistic plasma drift in EM-PIC simulations

DOI10.1016/j.cpc.2013.07.003zbMath1349.76929arXiv1211.0953WikidataQ59477579 ScholiaQ59477579MaRDI QIDQ340084

Wei Lu, Luis O. Silva, Xinlu Xu, Peicheng Yu, Samual F. Martins, Frank S. Tsung, Viktor K. Decyk, Jorge Vieira, Ricardo A. Fonseca, Warren B. Mori

Publication date: 11 November 2016

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0953

zbMATH Keywords

numerical instability; plasma simulation; particle in cell; numerical cherenkov radiation; numerical dispersion relation; relativistic plasma drift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M28: Particle methods and lattice-gas methods

65M12: Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

82D10: Statistical mechanics of plasmas

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

65M75: Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs