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Mottez, F.; Adam, J. C.; Heron, A.

A new guiding centre PIC scheme for electromagnetic highly magnetized plasma simulation. (English) Zbl 0997.81619

Comput. Phys. Commun. 113, No. 2-3, 109-130 (1998).
Summary: A new implicit fully electromagnetic particle in cell (PIC) method is presented in which the full ion dynamic and all the electron guiding centre drifts of a highly magnetized plasma are retained. We show that the electron drifts do not have to be described explicitly, and that they can be simulated using a simple but efficient linear direct implicit method. Tests and simulations using the new scheme are presented.

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MSC:

81V70 Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect
81-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to quantum theory
83-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory

Keywords:

electromagnetic; particle-in-cell; guiding centre; collisionless plasma; magnetosphere; PIC; electron guiding centre drifts
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