A guiding centre direct implicit scheme for magnetized plasma simulations

  • Authors:

  • F. Mottez

  • Affiliations:

  • LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Université/ Paris Diderot/ 5 Place Jules Janssen, 92190 Meudon, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A new implicit fully electromagnetic particle in cell method is presented in which the full ion dynamic and all the electron guiding centre drifts of a magnetized collisionless plasma are retained. This code retains the inertial effects on the electrons. It must be used for time steps larger or so than an electron cyclotron period, it is only valid for an electron plasma beta @b"e