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The aim of this lecture is to provide a very short ‘primer’ course on the PIC method. This will cover the basics of PIC algorithms and numerical methods, potential pit-falls of the method, and the important extensions to the method (including so-called ‘hybrid’ codes). This lecture is intended to be a starting point for further study, however enough details are given for a student to write their own 1D PIC code with some extra work.
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Robinson, A.P.L. (2013). Particle-in-Cell and Hybrid Simulation. In: McKenna, P., Neely, D., Bingham, R., Jaroszynski, D. (eds) Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications. Scottish Graduate Series. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00038-1_15
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