Acta mathematica scientia,Series A ›› 2020, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (5): 1393-1408.

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Unified Formulation of Charge-conserving Current Assignment in Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell Simulation

Meiyan Fu1,3,Tiao Lu1,2,*(),Xiangjiang Zhu1   

  1. 1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871
    2 CAPT & HEDPS, Peking University, Beijing 100871
    3 Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi'an 710024
  • Received:2019-08-01 Online:2020-10-26 Published:2020-11-04
  • Contact: Tiao Lu E-mail:tlu@math.pku.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    the NSFC(11671038)

Abstract:

Unified formulation of charge-conserving current assignment in the Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell simulation in two and three dimensional Cartesian geometry is proposed. This formulation is adapt for macroparticle with constant charge distribution. From the law of charge conservation, it is revealed that the involving current densities caused by the movement of a macroparticle with certain charge distribution satisfy a linear algebraic system which is usually underdetermined. By solving the linear system, all the possible current assignments could be obtained as the general solution of the system and any charge-conserving current assignment scheme is a special solution of the system. When a macroparticle with constant shape function moving in two dimensional Cartesian geometry three possible situations are presented, and when the macroparticle moving in three dimensional Cartesian geometry, the general and simplest situation is picked. The corresponding linear algebraic systems are listed and solved, and the concrete solution expressions are given. Three prevailing charge-conserving methods as three special solutions of these expressions are listed and analysed to give the corresponding parameters.

Key words: Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell(PIC), Charge-conserving, Current assignment

CLC Number: 

  • O242.2
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