Variational formulation of particle algorithms for kinetic plasma simulations

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2013.03.006zbMath1349.82078arXiv1210.3743OpenAlexW2074709256MaRDI QIDQ347741

B. A. Shadwick, E. G. Evstatiev

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3743

zbMATH Keywords

plasmaenergy conservingnumericalkineticparticle-in-cellmomentum conservingvariational

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