Suppressing the numerical cherenkov instability in FDTD PIC codes

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2014.02.022zbMath1349.82082arXiv1401.0838OpenAlexW2077613351MaRDI QIDQ349001

Jean-Luc Vay, Brendan B. Godfrey

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0838

zbMATH Keywords

numerical stabilityparticle-in-cellrelativistic beamfinite difference time-domain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Related Items (7)

Mitigation of numerical Cerenkov radiation and instability using a hybrid finite difference-FFT Maxwell solver and a local charge conserving current deposit ⋮ Suppressing the numerical Cherenkov radiation in the Yee numerical scheme ⋮ Enabling Lorentz boosted frame particle-in-cell simulations of laser wakefield acceleration in quasi-3D geometry ⋮ Three-dimensional simple conformal symplectic particle-in-cell methods for simulations of high power microwave devices ⋮ Controlling the numerical Cerenkov instability in PIC simulations using a customized finite difference Maxwell solver and a local FFT based current correction ⋮ A generalized massively parallel ultra-high order FFT-based Maxwell solver ⋮ On numerical errors to the fields surrounding a relativistically moving particle in PIC codes

Uses Software

• WARP

Cites Work

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