Numerical instability due to relativistic plasma drift in EM-PIC simulations

DOI10.1016/j.cpc.2013.07.003zbMath1349.76929arXiv1211.0953OpenAlexW2132486476WikidataQ59477579 ScholiaQ59477579MaRDI QIDQ340084

Jorge Vieira, Frank S. Tsung, Samual F. Martins, Luis O. Silva, Viktor K. Decyk, Warren B. Mori, Xinlu Xu, Ricardo A. Fonseca, Peicheng Yu, Wei Lu

Publication date: 11 November 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0953

zbMATH Keywords

numerical instabilityplasma simulationparticle in cellnumerical cherenkov radiationnumerical dispersion relationrelativistic plasma drift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M75)

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