TY - JOUR
T1 - A new method for coalescing particles in PIC codes
AU - Assous, F.
AU - Pougeard Dulimbert, T.
AU - Segré, J.
PY - 2003/5/20
Y1 - 2003/5/20
N2 - In this paper, a new method for coalescing particles in PIC codes is proposed. This coalescing process conserves the particle and mesh charge and current densities as well, and also the particle energy. Particular attention is devoted to the derivation of a method as general as possible, to be easily extended to other problems. Numerical examples are shown to illustrate the efficiency of the method.
AB - In this paper, a new method for coalescing particles in PIC codes is proposed. This coalescing process conserves the particle and mesh charge and current densities as well, and also the particle energy. Particular attention is devoted to the derivation of a method as general as possible, to be easily extended to other problems. Numerical examples are shown to illustrate the efficiency of the method.
KW - Coalescence
KW - PIC codes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0038286332&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/s0021-9991(03)00124-4
DO - 10.1016/s0021-9991(03)00124-4
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AN - SCOPUS:0038286332
SN - 0021-9991
VL - 187
SP - 550
EP - 571
JO - Journal of Computational Physics
JF - Journal of Computational Physics
IS - 2
ER -