ASPEN: A Fully Kinetic, Reduced-Description Particle-in-Cell Model for Simulating Parametric Instabilities

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 12-42

  Vu, H X ^a   Bezzerides, B ^a   Dubois, D F ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fully kinetic; Langmuir decay instability; Massively parallel; Parametric instabilities; Particle in cell; Reduced description; Stimulated Brillouin scattering; Stimulated Raman scattering; Two dimensional

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; IONS; KINETIC THEORY; KINETICS; PLASMA SIMULATION; POISSON EQUATION; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

FULLY KINETIC; LANGMUIR DECAY INSTABILITY; LOW-HIGH; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MASSIVELY PARALLELS; PARAMETRIC INSTABILITIES; PARTICLE IN CELL; PARTICLE-IN-CELL MODEL; REDUCED DESCRIPTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 0003302732     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6350     Document Type: Article

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