A corrected method for Coulomb scattering in arbitrarily weighted particle-in-cell plasma simulations

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2020.109450MaRDI QIDQ776724zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Drew Pitney Higginson, Ihor Holod, Anthony Link

Publication date 13 July 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1623345

zbMATH Keywords

numerical methodsCoulomb collisionsMonte-Carlo methodscollisional plasmaweighted particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Monte Carlo methods applied to problems in statistical mechanics (82M31)

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• A binary collision model for plasma simulation with a particle code
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• Langevin representation of Coulomb collisions in PIC simulations
• Numerical methods for particle simulations at extreme densities and temperatures: Weighted particles, relativistic collisions and reduced currents
• Particle simulation of Coulomb collisions: Comparing the methods of Takizuka \& Abe and Nanbu
• Small-angle Coulomb collision model for particle-in-cell simulations
• Understanding the accuracy of Nanbu's numerical Coulomb collision operator
• Weighted particles in Coulomb collision simulations based on the theory of a cumulative scattering angle
• \textsc{Smilei} : a collaborative, open-source, multi-purpose particle-in-cell code for plasma simulation

Cited in

(5)

• On numerical energy conservation for an implicit particle-in-cell method coupled with a binary Monte-Carlo algorithm for Coulomb collisions
• Numerical methods for particle simulations at extreme densities and temperatures: Weighted particles, relativistic collisions and reduced currents
• An improved control-variate scheme for particle-in-cell simulations with collisions
• A Cartesian-diffusion Langevin method for hybrid kinetic-fluid Coulomb scattering in particle-in-cell plasma simulations
• An implicit particle code with \textit{exact} energy and charge conservation for studies of dense plasmas in axisymmetric geometries

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Uses Software

• Smilei

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