Electromagnetic full particle code with adaptive mesh refinement technique: Application to the current sheet evolution

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 550-566

  Fujimoto, Keizo ^a   Machida, Shinobu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh; Electromagnetic PIC code; Magnetic reconnection; Particle splitting

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CYTOLOGY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ADAPTIVE MESHES; CURRENT SHEETS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC PIC CODE; ELECTROMAGNETICS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; PARTICLE SPLITTING; PIC CODES; REFINEMENT TECHNIQUES;

CELLS;

EID: 33645019109     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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