Explicit integrators for the magnetized equations of motion in Particle in Cell codes

A new explicit time-reversible orbit integrator for the equations of motion in a static homogeneous magnetic field – called Cyclotronic integrator – is presented. Like Spreiter and Walter’s Taylor expansion algorithm, for sufficiently weak electric field gradients this second order method does not r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Patacchini, Leonardo, Hutchinson, Ian Horner
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Academic Press 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58724