A Multi Level Multi Domain Method for Particle In Cell plasma simulations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 238, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-140

  Innocenti, M E ^a   Lapenta, G ^a,b,c   Markidis, S ^a,b,d   Beck, A ^a,b   Vapirev, A ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS   (Belgium)

^b Intel Corporation Belgium   (Belgium)

^c and Applications   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Implicit; Particle splitting; Particle In Cell

Indexed keywords

PLASMA SIMULATION;

ADAPTIVE; ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUE; DOMAIN METHODS; IMPLICIT; MULTI-DOMAINS; MULTILEVELS; PARTICLE IN CELL; PARTICLE SPLITTING; PARTICLE-IN-CELL PLASMA SIMULATIONS; SHAPE FUNCTIONS;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 84873323523     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.12.028     Document Type: Article

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