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Diagnosing numerical Cherenkov instabilities in relativistic plasma simulations based on general meshes by Na, D. -Y.; Nicolini, J. L.; Lee, R.; Borges, B. -H. V.; Omelchenko, Y. A.; Teixeira, F. L. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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Numerical Cherenkov radiation (NCR) or instability is a detrimental effect frequently found in electromagnetic particle-in-cell (EM-PIC) simulations involving relativistic plasma beams. NCR is caused by spurious coupling between electromagnetic-field modes and multiple beam resonances. This coupling may result from the slow down of poorly-resolved waves due to numerical (grid) dispersion and from aliasing mechanisms. NCR has been studied in the past for finite-difference-based EM-PIC algorithms on regular (structured) meshes with rectangular elements. In this work, we extend the analysis of NCR to finite-element-based EM-PIC algorithms implemented on unstructured meshes. The influence of different mesh element shapes and mesh layouts on NCR is studied. Analytic predictions are compared against results from finite-element-based EM-PIC simulations of relativistic plasma beams on various mesh types.

Author

Na, D. -Y.; Nicolini, J. L.; Lee, R.; Borges, B. -H. V.; Omelchenko, Y. A.; Teixeira, F. L.

Published

2018

Language

EN