PPPL-3826 is available in <a href="PPPL-3826.pdf">pdf</a> format (772 KB).

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<b>Improved Conservation Properties for Particle-in-cell Simulations with Kinetic Electrons</b>
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<b>Author:</b> J.L.V. Lewandowski
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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> June 2003
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It is shown that a simple algorithm which exactly segregates between adiabatic and non-adiabatic electrons in particle-in-cell simulations of drift modes yields excellent conservation properties (e.g. particle number, energy) compared to the conventional delta-f scheme. The removal of the free streaming term in the evolution of the marker weight is shown to be responsible for the improved linear and nonlinear properties of the simulated plasma.




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