Mitigation of the cancellation problem in the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of global electromagnetic modes

Alexey Mishchenko, Alberto Bottino, Roman Hatzky, Eric Sonnendrücker, Ralf Kleiber, Axel Könies
2017 Physics of Plasmas  
Electromagnetic gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations have been inhibited for long time by numerical problems. This paper discusses the origin of these problems. It also gives an overview and summary of the mitigation techniques. a alexey.mishchenko@ipp.mpg.de
doi:10.1063/1.4997540 fatcat:5e5bzuzurzf6jjdcd5hgzc3dnm