A new method for coalescing particles in PIC codes.

DOI10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00124-4zbMath1038.76031OpenAlexW1994133751MaRDI QIDQ1811653

J. Segré, Thierry Pougeard-Dulimbert, Franck Assous

Publication date: 17 June 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-9991(03)00124-4

zbMATH Keywords

plasmacoalescenceparticle-in-cell methodparticle energyMaxwell systemcurrent densitiesmesh chargeparticle chargePIC codestime-dependent Vlasov equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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