A finite element Poisson solver for gyrokinetic particle simulations in a global field aligned mesh

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 657-671

  Nishimura, Y ^a   Lin, Z ^a   Lewandowski, J L V ^b   Ethier, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global field aligned mesh; Gyrokinetic Poisson equation; Particle simulation; Plasma turbulence

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MESH GENERATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PLASMA TURBULENCE;

CPU TIME; FINITE ELEMENT SOLVER; GLOBAL FIELD ALIGNED MESH; GYROKINETIC PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; GYROKINETIC POISSON EQUATION; GYROKINETICS; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; POISSON SOLVERS; RECTANGULAR GRIDS; TEST CASE;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 33644957068     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.10.011     Document Type: Article

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