Controlling the weights of simulation particles: adaptive particle management using \(k\)-d trees

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2013.12.005zbMath1349.76740arXiv1301.1552OpenAlexW2101294528MaRDI QIDQ348706

Jannis Teunissen, Ute Ebert

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/1301.1552

zbMATH Keywords

coalescenceparticle simulationsparticle in cell\(k\)-d treeadaptive particle managementmacro-particlesuper-particle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N75) Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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Uses Software

• PIC-MCC
• KDTREE

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