High-order nodal discontinuous Galerkin particle-in-cell method on unstructured grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 96-121

  Jacobs, G B ^a   Hesthaven, Jan S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin methods; High order methods; Maxwell equations; Particle in cell; Plasma physics; Unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

GALERKIN METHODS; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA SIMULATION;

DISCONTINOUS GALERKIN METHODS; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; HIGH-ORDER; HIGH-ORDER METHODS; HIGHER-ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER METHODS; PARTICLE IN CELL; PLASMA DYNAMICS; PLASMA PHYSICS; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 33644516322     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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