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Particle-in-Cell code using the implicit moment method
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support second order accuracy in time #67

Open alecjohnson opened 10 years ago

alecjohnson commented 10 years ago

iPic3D is currently only first-order accurate in time. Second-order accuracy in time requires that particles be pushed with field values that approximate time-averaged values and that the implicit susceptibility be calculated with field values and densities that approximate time-averaged values.

To achieve this, I would introduce support for options something like:

  PushWithBatTime = .5 # default: 0
  PushWithEatTime = .5 # default: 1
  ImplSusceptTime = .5 # default: 0

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