A New Code for Electrostatic Simulation by Numerical Integration of the Vlasov and Ampère Equations Using MacCormack's Method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 182-200

  Horne, Richard B ^a   Freeman, Mervyn P ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

'CURRENT; CONDITION; COURANT-FRIEDRICHS-LEWY; ELECTROSTATIC SIMULATIONS; ELECTROSTATIC WAVES; MACCORMACK METHODS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; ONE DIMENSION; SIMULATION CODE; STANDING WAVE;

VLASOV EQUATION;

EID: 0000119463     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6781     Document Type: Article

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