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Particle simulation of plasmas: review and advances
Abstract
Particle simulation of plasmas, employed since the 1960s, provides a self-consistent, fully kinetic representation of general plasmas. Early incarnations looked for fundamental plasma effects in one-dimensional systems with ∼10 2 –10 3 particles in periodic electrostatic systems on computers with ≲100 kB memory. Recent advances model boundary conditions, such as external circuits to wave launchers, collisions and effects of particle–surface impact, all in fully relativistic three-dimensional electromagnetic systems using ∼10 6 –10 10 particles on massively parallel computers. While particle codes still enjoy prominance in a number of basic physics areas, they are now often used for engineering devices as well.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Verboncoeur, J. P.
- Venue
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2005-04-19
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 5A
- Pages
- A231-A260
- ISSN
- 0741-3335 (ISSN-L)
- 1361-6587
- OpenAlex
- W2048338165
- Cited by
- 628
- References
- 26
- FWCI
- 9.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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