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Space Plasma Simulation

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Jörg Büchner

    1. Max-Plack-Institut für Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

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  2. Manfred Scholer

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany

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  3. Christian T. Dum

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 615)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Plasmas— A Tutorial

    • Philip L. Pritchett
    Pages 1-24

  3. Parallel 3-D Electromagnetic Particle Code Using High Performance FORTRAN: Parallel TRISTAN

    • Dongsheng Cai, Yaoting Li, Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, Chijie Xiao, Xiaoyang Yan, Zuying Pu
    Pages 25-53

  4. Full Particle Electromagnetic Simulation of Collisionless Shocks

    • Bertrand Lembège
    Pages 54-78

  5. Simulation of Electron Beam Instabilities and Nonlinear Potential Structures

    • Yoshiharu Omura, Takayuki Umeda, Hiroshi Matsumoto
    Pages 79-92

  6. Kinetic Simulation of Inhomogeneous Plasma with a Variable Sized Grid System

    • David Schriver
    Pages 93-108

  7. Low Noise Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Delta-f Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Plasmas

    • Richard D. Sydora
    Pages 109-124

  8. Particle Simulation of Dusty Plasmas

    • Glenn Joyce, Martin Lampe, Gurudas Ganguli
    Pages 125-135

  9. Hybrid Simulation Codes: Past, Present and Future—A Tutorial

    • Dan Winske, Lin Yin, Nick Omidi, Homa Karimabadi, Kevin Quest
    Pages 136-165

  10. Hall Magnetohydrodynamics - A Tutorial

    • Joseph D. Huba
    Pages 166-192

  11. Fluid Plasma Simulation of Coupled Systems: Ionosphere and Magnetosphere

    • Antonius Otto, Hua Zhu
    Pages 193-211

  12. Global Magnetohydrodynamics — A Tutorial

    • Joachim Raeder
    Pages 212-246

  13. Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation

    • Tamas I. Gombosi, Darren L. De Zeeuw, Kenneth G. Powell, Aaron J. Ridley, Igor V. Sokolov, Quentin F. Stout et al.
    Pages 247-274

  14. Finite Volume TVD Schemes for Magnetohydrodynamics on Unstructered Grids

    • Takashi Tanaka
    Pages 275-295

  15. Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation Using High Performance FORTRAN on Parallel Computers

    • Tatsuki Ogino
    Pages 296-314

  16. Numerical Schemes for the Analysis of Turbulence — A Tutorial

    • Thierry Dudok de Wit
    Pages 315-342

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 345-351
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The aim of this book is twofold: to provide an introduction for newcomers to state of the art computer simulation techniques in space plasma physics and an overview of current developments. Computer simulation has reached a stage where it can be a highly useful tool for guiding theory and for making predictions of space plasma phenomena, ranging from microscopic to global scales. The various articles are arranged, as much as possible, according to the - derlying simulation technique, starting with the technique that makes the least number of assumptions: a fully kinetic approach which solves the coupled set of Maxwell’s equations for the electromagnetic ?eld and the equations of motion for a very large number of charged particles (electrons and ions) in this ?eld. Clearly, this is also the computationally most demanding model. Therefore, even with present day high performance computers, it is the most restrictive in terms of the space and time domain and the range of particle parameters that can be covered by the simulation experiments. It still makes sense, therefore, to also use models, which due to their simp- fying assumptions, seem less realistic, although the e?ect of these assumptions on the outcome of the simulation experiments needs to be carefully assessed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Max-Plack-Institut für Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

    Jörg Büchner

  • Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany

    Manfred Scholer, Christian T. Dum

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