Pegasus: A new hybrid-kinetic particle-in-cell code for astrophysical plasma dynamics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 259, Issue , 2014, Pages 154-174

  Kunz, Matthew W ^a,b   Stone, James M ^a,b   Bai, Xue Ning ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid; Numerical methods; Particle in cell; Plasma

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CODES (SYMBOLS); DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; PLASMA SIMULATION; SHEAR FLOW;

A-STABLE; ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMA; ENERGY-CONSERVING; HYBRID; PARTICLE IN CELL; PARTICLEIN CELL (PIC) CODES; PEGASIS; PEGASUS; PLASMA DYNAMICS; SECOND ORDERS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84890384845     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2013.11.035     Document Type: Article

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