Semi-Lagrangian schemes for the Vlasov equation on an unstructured mesh of phase space

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 341-376

  Besse, Nicolas ^a,b   Sonnendrucker E ^b  

^a CEA DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Conservation laws; Particle beams; Plasma physics; Semi Lagrangian methods; Time splitting; Vlasov Poisson system

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MESH GENERATION; PHASE SPACE METHODS; POISSON EQUATION; VLASOV EQUATION;

CONSERVATION LAW; DISTRIBUTION-FUNCTIONS; LOCAL INTERPOLATION; PHASE SPACES; PLASMA PHYSICS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN METHODS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN SCHEME; TIME SPLITTING; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; VLASOV-POISSON SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 0242329747     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00318-8     Document Type: Article

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