High-Order Interpolation Algorithms for Charge Conservation in Particle-in-Cell Simulations

Year:    2013

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 13 (2013), Iss. 4 : pp. 1134–1150

Abstract

High-order interpolation algorithms for charge conservation in Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations are presented. The methods are valid for the case that a particle trajectory is a zigzag line. The second-order and third-order algorithms which can be applied to any even-order and odd-order are discussed in this paper, respectively. Several test simulations are performed to demonstrate their validity in two-dimensional PIC code. Compared with the simulation results of one-order, high-order algorithms have advantages in computation precision and enlarging the grid scales which reduces the CPU time. 

Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.290811.050412a

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 13 (2013), Iss. 4 : pp. 1134–1150

Published online:    2013-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    17

Keywords:   

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