PolyPIC: The Polymorphic-Particle-in-Cell Method for Fluid-Kinetic Coupling

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) methods are widely used computational tools for fluid and kinetic plasma modeling. While both the fluid and kinetic PIC approaches have been successfully used to target either kinetic or fluid simulations, little was done to combine fluid and kinetic particles under the same P...

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Main Authors: Stefano Markidis, Vyacheslav Olshevsky, Chaitanya Prasad Sishtla, Steven W. D. Chien, Erwin Laure, Giovanni Lapenta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphy.2018.00100/full