A new guiding centre PIC scheme for electromagnetic highly magnetized plasma simulation

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 113, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 109-130

  Mottez, F ^a   Adam, J C ^b   Heron, A ^b  

^a SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Collisionless plasma; Electromagnetic; Guiding centre; Magnetosphere; Particle In Cell (PIC)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA SIMULATION;

COLLISIONLESS PLASMA; ELECTRON GUIDING CENTER; PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC) METHOD;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0032180705     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-4655(98)00076-9     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. D. Hewett, B. Langdon, Electromagnetic direct implicit plasma simulation, J. Comput. Phys. 72 (1987) 121.
2. M. Tanaka, Macroscale implicit electromagnetic particle simulation of magnetized plasmas, J. Comput. Phys. 79 (1988) 209.
3. M. Tanaka, The macro-EM particle simulation method and a study of collisionless magnetic reconnection, Comput. Phys. Commun. 87 (1995) 117-138.
4. B. Langdon, B. Cohen, A. Friedman, Direct implicit large time-step particle simulations of plasmas, J. Comput. Phys. 51 (1983) 107.
5. I.B. Cohen, R.P. Freis, V. Thomas, Orbit-averaged implicit particle codes, J. Comput. Phys. 45 (1982) 345.
6. I.E. Cohen, R.P. Freis, Stability and application of an orbit-averaged magneto-inductive particle code, J. Comput. Phys. 45 (1982) 367.
7. D. Hewett, Low-frequency electromagnetic (Darwin) applications in plasma simulation, Comput. Phys. Commun. 84 (1994) 243-277.
8. M.R. Gibbons, D.W. Hewett, The Darwin direct implicit particle-in-cell (DADIPIC) method for simulation of low frequency plasma phenomena, J. Comput. Phys. 120 (1995) 231-247.
9. M.R. Gibbons, D.W. Hewett, Characterization of the Drawin direct implicit particle-in-cell method and resulting guidelines for operation, J. Comput. Phys. 130 (1997) 54-66.
10. T. Northrop, The Adiabatic Motion of Charged Particles (Interscience, New York, 1963).
11. C.K. Birsdall, B. Langdon, Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1985).
12. R.H. Hockney, J.W. Eastwood, Computer Simulations Using Particles (Adam Hilger, Bristol, 1988).
13. P. Concus, G.H. Golub, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 10 (1973) 1103.
14. D.A. Hamlin, R. Karplus, R.C. Vik, K.M. Watson, Mirror and azimuthal drift frequencies for geomagnetically trapped particles, J. Geophys. Res. 66 (1961) 1-4.
15. G. Belmont, C. Mazelle, Polytropic indices in collisionless plasmas: theory and measurements, J. Geophys. Res. 97 (1992) 8327.
16. K. Rönnmark, Computation of the dielectric tensor of a Maxwellian plasma, Plasma Phys. 25 (1983) 669.
17. F. Mottez, G. Chanteur, Nonlinear bidimensional evolution of ion beam driven electrostatic instabilities in the auroral region, J. Geophys. Res. 96 (1991) 141-147.
18. F. Mottez, G. Chanteur, A. Roux, Filamentation of plasma in the auroral region by an ion-ion instability: A process for the formation of bidimensional potential structures, J. Geophys. Res. 97 (1992) 801-810.