Instability of the time splitting scheme for the one-dimensional and relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 512-531

  Huot, F ^a   Ghizzo, A ^a   Bertrand, P ^a   Sonnendrucker E ^b   Coulaud, O ^c  

^a INSTITUT JEAN LAMOUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ HENRI POINCARÉ NANCY 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

Laser plasma interaction; Self induced transparency; Semi Lagrangian scheme; Time Splitting Scheme; Vlasov Maxwell model

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; PLASMA STABILITY; TRANSPARENCY; VLASOV EQUATION; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; MAXWELL-MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; RELATIVISTIC REGIME; RELATIVISTICS; SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN SCHEME; TIME SPLITTING SCHEME; VLASOV-MAXWELL MODEL; VLASOV-MAXWELL SYSTEM;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0037337790     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(02)00079-7     Document Type: Article

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