A δf particle method for gyrokinetic simulations with kinetic electrons and electromagnetic perturbations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 463-475

  Chen, Yang ^a   Parker, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic; Gyrokinetic simulation; Split weight scheme; f method

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PERTURBATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; GYROKINETIC SIMULATIONS; KINETIC ELECTRONS; PARTICLE METHODS; PARTICLE SIMULATION METHOD; SPLIT-WEIGHT SCHEME; TOROIDAL GEOMETRY; WEIGHT SCHEMES; ΔF METHOD;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 0042657903     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00228-6     Document Type: Article

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