Electromagnetic gyrokinetic PIC simulation with an adjustable control variates method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 568-590

  Hatzky, R ^a   Konies A ^b   Mishchenko, A ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK COMPUTING AND DATA FACILITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Control variates method; Electromagnetic; Gyrokinetic simulation; f method

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA SIMULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONTROL VARIATE METHOD; CONTROL VARIATES; DISCRETIZATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; GYROKINETIC EQUATIONS; GYROKINETIC SIMULATIONS; GYROKINETICS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; STATISTICAL NOISE; ΔF METHOD;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 34447252615     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.12.019     Document Type: Article

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