Loading and Injection of Maxwellian Distributions in Particle Simulations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 483-513

  Cartwright, K L ^a   Verboncoeur, J P ^b   Birdsall, C K ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

INJECTION TIME; LOADING TIME; MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION; MAXWELLIAN VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; PARTICLE INJECTION; PARTICLE LOADING; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY; TEST CASE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 0345856498     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6549     Document Type: Article

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