Efficient computational model for inductive plasma flows

AIAA journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 234-242

  Vanden Abeele, David ^a   Degrez, Gérard ^a  

^a VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR ALGEBRA; LINEARIZATION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

NEWTON METHOD; PICARD METHOD;

PLASMA FLOW;

EID: 0034140726     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.14402     Document Type: Article

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