An Implicit Energy-Conservative 2D Fokker-Planck Algorithm: II. Jacobian-Free Newton-Krylov Solver

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 654-682

  Chacon L ^a   Barnes, D C ^b   Knoll, D A ^b   Miley, G H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy conservative Fokker Planck; Implicit plasma simulation; Multigrid methods; Non symmetric systems; Preconditioned Krylov methods

Indexed keywords

FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ENERGY; ENERGY-CONSERVATIVE FOKKE-PLANCK; FOKKER PLANCK; IMPLICIT PLASMA SIMULATION; JACOBIAN-FREE NEWTON-KRYLOV; KRYLOV METHOD; MULTIGRID METHODS; NON-SYMMETRIC SYSTEM; PLASMA-SIMULATION; PRECONDITIONED KRYLOV METHOD;

JACOBIAN MATRICES;

EID: 0034687904     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6395     Document Type: Article

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