Fragmentation, merging, and internal dynamics for PIC simulation with finite size particles

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 390-426

  Hewett, Dennis W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA FUNCTIONS; KINETICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SCREENING;

EULERIAN FLUIDS; FINITE-SIZE PARTICLES; FLUID REGIME; FRAGMENTATION DYNAMICS; IN-PHASE; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; KINETIC REGIME; MACROPARTICLE; PHASE SPACES; PIC SIMULATION;

MERGING;

EID: 0038367012     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00225-0     Document Type: Article

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