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Kinetic Simulation of Inhomogeneous Plasma with a Variable Sized Grid System

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Space plasmas are usually inhomogeneous andirregular. Particle in cell (PIC) plasma simulations, however, often consider the plasma to be homogeneous and periodic. Here non-periodic PIC simulations with inhomogeneities in the density, temperature and background magnetic field are considered. Boundary conditions and a variable sizedgridsystem are discussed, along with an application to a magnetospheric plasma physics problem in the auroral zone.

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Schriver, D. (2003). Kinetic Simulation of Inhomogeneous Plasma with a Variable Sized Grid System. In: Büchner, J., Scholer, M., Dum, C.T. (eds) Space Plasma Simulation. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36530-3_5

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