Implementation of high order spline interpolations for tracking test particles in discretized fields

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5862-5869

  Lalescu, C C ^a,b   Teaca, B ^a,b   Carati, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Numerical optimization; Spline interpolation; Test particle

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

HIGH-ORDER SPLINE INTERPOLATIONS; INTERPOLATION METHOD; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; RECTANGULAR GRIDS; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SPLINE INTERPOLATION; TEST PARTICLES; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; TRACKING TESTS; TRACKING TRAJECTORY;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 77953618517     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.10.046     Document Type: Article

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