A High Precision Particle-Moving Algorithm for Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Plasma

Author

Xiaofei Li ; Dong Li ; Haikun Yue ; Zhe Zhang ; Kaifeng Liu ; Mingwu Fan ; Dezhi Chen

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Electromagn. Eng. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

Volume

51

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Mar-15

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A new particle-moving algorithm for particle-in-cell simulation of plasma is developed based on the linear multistep method. The conventional and the new algorithms are investigated by numerical experiments, which are conducted in three typical fashions of the electron motions in electromagnetic fields, namely, cyclotron in homogeneous magnetic field, drift in E × B field, and motions in inhomogeneous magnetic field. The new algorithm not only improves the accuracy, but also relaxes the time step condition for the simulation, thus increasing the computation efficiency.

Keywords

cyclotrons; iterative methods; plasma electromagnetic wave propagation; plasma simulation; computation efficiency; cyclotron; drift field; electromagnetic fields; electron motion; high precision particle moving algorithm; homogeneous magnetic field; linear multistep method; numerical experiments; particle-in-cell plasma simulation; Accuracy; Cyclotrons; Electromagnetics; Mathematical model; Nonhomogeneous media; Plasmas; Tracking; Electromagnetic fields; linear multistep method; particle motion; particle-in-cell (PIC);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2014.2361607

Filename

7093433