Note on quantitatively correct simulations of the kinetic beam-plasma instability
Plasma Physics
2015-06-23 v1 Computational Physics
Abstract
A large number of model particles is shown necessary for quantitatively correct simulations of the kinetic beam-plasma instability with the clouds-in-cells method. The required number of particles scales inversely with the expected growth rate, as in the kinetic regime only a narrow interval of beam velocities is resonant with the wave.
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@article{arxiv.1410.5617,
title = {Note on quantitatively correct simulations of the kinetic beam-plasma instability},
author = {K. V. Lotov and I. V. Timofeev and E. A. Mesyats and A. V. Snytnikov and V. A. Vshivkov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5617},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures