Copyright © 1969 Published by Elsevier Inc.
Clouds-in-clouds, clouds-in-cells physics for many-body plasma simulation*1
Received 22 August 1968.
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Abstract
A clouds-interacting-with-clouds, clouds-in-cells method (CIC) is presented for many-body nonlinear plasma problems. Density and force are obtained by assuming that the particles have finite size, are tenuous, and may pass through one another; the particles are thus called clouds. They obey a Coulomb force (
1/r or 1/r2) when separated and a linear force (
r) when overlapping, allowing simple harmonic oscillations at small separation. CIC is contrasted with the zero-size particle and nearestgrid-point approach, ZSP-NGP. CIC appears to have substantially less unwanted noise than ZSP-NGP, and should be more useful in simulating dense plasmas. Initial runs have been encouraging. The methods may find use in other many-body simulations, such as with stars, or with particles in phase space.







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