Plasma sheath evolution from perturbed electrodes in a negative-ion plasma

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 57, Issue PART 1, 1997, Pages 47-57

  El Zein, Yasser ^a   Yi, Seungjun ^b   Lonngren, Karl E ^a,b   Alexeff, Igor ^c   Sheridan, Terrence E ^d,e   Hsuan, Hulbert ^f  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

^d Glenville State College   (United States)

^e WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; IONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMAS;

LOCALIZED CONCAVE; LOCALIZED CONVEX;

PLASMA SHEATHS;

EID: 0030672110     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377896005193     Document Type: Article

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