A parallel Vlasov solver based on local
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Nicolas Crouseilles; Guillaume Latu; Eric Sonnendrücker
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A method for computing the numerical solution of Vlasov type equations on massively parallel computers is presented. In contrast with Particle In Cell methods which are known to be noisy, the method is based on a semi-Lagrangian algorithm that approaches the Vlasov equation on a grid of phase space.