TY - JOUR
T1 - Particle-in-cell method for plasmas in the one-dimensional electrostatic limit
AU - Gomez, Sara
AU - Hoyos, Jaime Humberto
AU - Valdivia, Juan Alejandro
N1 - Funding Information:
S.G. is grateful to Universidad EAFIT for its support. J.H.H. thanks the support of University of Medellin, Colombia and Professor Jaime Araneda of University of Concepción, Chile for his guidance in the first steps of Particle simulations in Plasmas. J.A.V. thanks the support of ANID-Fondecyt under Grant No. 1190703.
Funding Information:
S.G. is grateful to Universidad EAFIT for its support. J.H.H. thanks the support of University of Medellin, Colombia and Professor Jaime Araneda of University of Concepción, Chile for his guidance in the first steps of Particle simulations in Plasmas. J.A.V. thanks the support of ANID-Fondecyt under Grant No. 1190703.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Author(s).
PY - 2023/3/1
Y1 - 2023/3/1
N2 - We discuss the particle-in-cell (PIC) method, which is one of the most widely used approaches for the kinetic description of plasmas. The positions and velocities of the charged particles take continuous values in phase space, and spatial macroscopic quantities, such as the charge density and self-generated electric fields, are calculated at discrete spatial points of a grid. We discuss the computer implementation of the PIC method for one-dimensional plasmas in the electrostatic regime and discuss a desktop application (PlasmAPP), which includes the implementation of different numerical and interpolation methods and diagnostics in a graphical user interface. To illustrate its functionality, the electron-electron two-stream instability is discussed. Readers can use PlasmAPP to explore advanced numerical methods and simulate different phenomena of interest.
AB - We discuss the particle-in-cell (PIC) method, which is one of the most widely used approaches for the kinetic description of plasmas. The positions and velocities of the charged particles take continuous values in phase space, and spatial macroscopic quantities, such as the charge density and self-generated electric fields, are calculated at discrete spatial points of a grid. We discuss the computer implementation of the PIC method for one-dimensional plasmas in the electrostatic regime and discuss a desktop application (PlasmAPP), which includes the implementation of different numerical and interpolation methods and diagnostics in a graphical user interface. To illustrate its functionality, the electron-electron two-stream instability is discussed. Readers can use PlasmAPP to explore advanced numerical methods and simulate different phenomena of interest.
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U2 - 10.1119/5.0135515
DO - 10.1119/5.0135515
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85148727060
SN - 0002-9505
VL - 91
SP - 225
EP - 234
JO - American Journal of Physics
JF - American Journal of Physics
IS - 3
ER -