VORPAL: A versatile plasma simulation code

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 448-473

  Nieter, Chet ^a   Cary, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid simulations; Laser plasma interactions; Object oriented programming; Plasma physics

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; PLASMA SIMULATION;

FLUID MODELING; HYBRID SIMULATION; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; MULTIPLE-MODELING; OBJECTORIENTED PROGRAMMING (OOP); PARTICLE-IN-CELL MODEL; PLASMA MODELING; PLASMA PHYSICS; PLASMA-SIMULATION; SIMULATION CODE;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 2442421161     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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