Unstructured 3D PIC simulations of the flow in a retarding potential analyzer

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 164, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 383-389

  Spirkin, Anton ^a   Gatsonis, Nikolaos A ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Force interpolation; Numerical heating; Particle weighting; Particle in Cell (PIC); Particle Mesh (PM); Retarding potential analyzer; Unstructured grid

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; INTERPOLATION; IONIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FORCE INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL HEATING; PARTICLE WEIGHTING; PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC); PARTICLE-MESH (PM); RETARDING POTENTIAL ANALYZER (RPA); UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 10444241995     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2004.06.051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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