Self-Consistent Description of Radial Space-Charge Confinement in DC Column Plasmas

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 26-46

  Schmidt, M ^a   Uhrlandt, D ^a   Winkler, R ^a  

^a Inst Niedertemperatur Plasmaphys   (Germany)

Author keywords

dc column plasma; Electron kinetics; Function minimization; Poisson's equation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KINETICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CHARGE CONFINEMENT; COLUMN PLASMA; DC COLUMN PLASMA; ELECTRON COMPONENT; ELECTRON KINETICS; FUNCTION MINIMIZATION; KINETIC EQUATIONS; MINIMISATION; NONLOCAL; SELF-CONSISTENT DESCRIPTION;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 0006223985     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6676     Document Type: Article

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