A P-Adaptive Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method for Electrostatic Particle-in-Cell Simulations

Tobias Ott, Stephen Copplestone, Marcel Pfeiffer

This paper presents a p-adaptive high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (HDG-SEM) for solving the Poisson equation in electrostatic plasma simulatio…