Implementation of a semi-implicit orbit-averaged gyrokinetic particle code

DOI10.1006/JCPH.1993.1143MaRDI QIDQ686595zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. I. Cohen, Timothy J. Williams

Publication date 13 October 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/543554f85f3026f9f531153b2eca85d556e31982

zbMATH Keywords

dispersion analysisnumerical stabilitystatistical constraintsstatistical noisestrongly magnetized plasma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

Review text

A semi-implicit orbit-averaged time-integration algorithm has been successfully implemented in a gyrokinetic particle simulation code for the study of self-consistent phenomena in a strongly magnetized plasma. The semi-implicit aspect of the integration scheme relaxes the timestep constraints required to ensure numerical stability. The orbit averaging is useful in reducing statistical noise and relaxes the statistical constraints for kinetic simulation. Both a linear numerical dispersion analysis and illustrative simulation examples are presented.

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