Multi-scale simulations of plasma with iPIC3D
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Multi-scale simulations of plasma with iPIC3D Stefano Markidis a,b, Giovanni Lapenta c,∗, Rizwan-uddin a,d a Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 104 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL 61801, USA b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road Berkeley, CA 94720, USA c Centrum voor Plasma-Astrofysica and Leuven Mathematical Modeling & Computational Science Centre, Departement Wiskunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, 3001 Leuven, Belgium d National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
دوره 80 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010