Implementation of parallel plasma particle-in-cell codes on PC cluster

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 93-104

  Lu, Quan Ming ^a   Cai, Dong Sheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

PARALLEL PLASMA PARTICLE-IN-CELL CODES;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 0035277321     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4655(00)00227-7     Document Type: Article

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