Controlling self-force errors at refinement boundaries for AMR-PIC

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2009.07.004zbMath1185.82054MaRDI QIDQ846529

Phillip Colella, Peter C. Norgaard

Publication date: 9 February 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.07.004

zbMATH Keywords

self-forces; adaptive mesh refinement; particle-in-cell methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65N75: Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for boundary value problems involving PDEs

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

82D10: Statistical mechanics of plasmas

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