ALaDyn: A high-accuracy PIC code for the Maxwell-Vlasov equations

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4 PART 4, 2008, Pages 1790-1798

  Benedetti, Carlo ^a   Sgattoni, Andrea ^a   Turchetti, Giorgio ^a   Londrillo, Pasquale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Implicit compact schemes; Laser plasma interaction; Particle in cell (PIC) simulations

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PLASMAS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

CARTESIAN GEOMETRIES; CASE BASED; FINITE-DIFFERENCE SCHEMES; HIGH-ACCURACY; HIGH-ORDER; IMPLICIT COMPACT SCHEMES; LASER AND PLASMA; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION; PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC) SIMULATIONS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL CODE; PIC CODES; PLASMON; PREFORMED PLASMAS; SPECTRAL ACCURACY; VALIDATION TESTING; VLASOV EQUATIONS;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 50249123485     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.927143     Document Type: Article

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