A split control variate scheme for PIC simulations with collisions

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.04.004MaRDI QIDQ350076zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric Sonnendrücker, Abigail Wacher, Roman Hatzky, Ralf Kleiber

Publication date 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0027-7ABD-4

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlocontrol variateFokker-PlanckcollisionsVlasov-Poisson systemparticle in cell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Stochastic particle methods (65C35) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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