Efficient particle simulation of a virtual cathode using a grid-free treecode poisson solver

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 384-389

  Christlieb, Andrew J ^a   Krasny, Robert ^a   Verboncoeur, John P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONLESS PLASMA SYSTEM; COULOMB POTENTIAL; GRID FREE TREECODE POISSON SOLVER; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL METHOD; PLASMA DYNAMICS; TREECODE ALGORITHM; VIRTUAL CATHODE;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CATHODES; CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTROSTATICS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; POISSON EQUATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VIRTUAL REALITY;

PLASMA SIMULATION;

EID: 4344588280     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.826146     Document Type: Article

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