Particle-in-Cell Charged-Particle Simulations, Plus Monte Carlo Collisions With Neutral Atoms, PIC-MCC

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 65-85

  Birdsall, C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GASES--IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS--MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0026140546     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.106800     Document Type: Article

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