A ponderomotive guiding center particle-in-cell code for efficient modeling of laser-plasma interactions

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1135-1143

  Gordon, Daniel F ^a,d   Mori, W B ^b   Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Particle code; Plasma simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342447813     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.893300     Document Type: Article

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