Review and Recent Advances in PIC Modeling of Relativistic Beams and Plasmas

2014/08/05 by Godfrey, Brendan B.
#Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1408.1146

Abstract

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation codes have wide applicability to first-principles modeling of multidimensional nonlinear plasma phenomena, including wake-field accelerators. This review addresses both finite difference and pseudo-spectral PIC algorithms, including numerical instability suppression and generalizations of the spectral field solver.

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