Formulation of the relativistic moment implicit particle-in-cell method

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Noguchi, Koichi ^a   Tronci, Cesare ^b,c   Zuccaro, Gianluca ^d,e   Lapenta, Giovanni ^f  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TERA Foundation   (Italy)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^f CENTRE FOR PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE ALGORITHM; PARTICLE-IN-CELL METHOD; VLASOV-MAXWELL SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; RELATIVITY;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 34247596124     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2721083     Document Type: Article

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