Weighted Particles in Coulomb Collision Simulations Based on the Theory of a Cumulative Scattering Angle

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 639-654

  Nanbu, K ^a   Yonemura, S ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS;

BINARY-COLLISION; COLLISION ALGORITHMS; COSINE FUNCTIONS; COULOMB COLLISION; EXPONENTIALS; LAW OF SCATTERING; PROPERTY; SCATTERING ANGLES; WEIGHT ALGORITHM;

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS;

EID: 0001419438     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6049     Document Type: Article

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