Fully implicit kinetic solution of collisional plasmas

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 308-323

  Mousseau, V A ^a   Knoll, D A ^b  

^a U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; MAGNETOPLASMA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VLASOV EQUATION;

DETERMINISTICS; FOKKER-PLANCK-EQUATION; KINETIC SOLUTIONS; MATRIX FREE; MODEL PROBLEMS; NEWTON-KRYLOV; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; SINGLE SPECIES; SPATIAL DIMENSION; VELOCITY DIMENSIONS;

FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION;

EID: 0031572110     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1997.5736     Document Type: Article

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