Development and application of multi-dimensional particle-in-cell codes for investigation of laser plasma interactions

Jisuan Wuli/Chinese Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-50

  Chen, Min ^a   Sheng, Zhengming ^a   Zheng, Jun ^a   Ma, Yanyun ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Moving window; Parallel computing; Particle in cell simulation; Plasma; Ultrashort and uitraintense laser

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; IMPACT IONIZATION; RADIATION;

LASER PROPAGATION; MOVING WINDOW; NEUTRAL GAS; PARALLEL COMPUTING;

PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 40049100328     PISSN: 1001246X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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