An improved control-variate scheme for particle-in-cell simulations with collisions

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2010.12.045MaRDI QIDQ634093zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Könies, K. Kauffmann, P. Helander, Ralf Kleiber, Roman Hatzky

Publication date 2 August 2011

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

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0026-E96C-0

zbMATH Keywords

collisionsMonte Carlo simulationsparticle-in-cell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

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