Boundary conditions for the Child-Langmuir sheath model

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2207-2213

  Benilov, Mikhail S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY;

BOHM VELOCITY; CHILD-LANGMUIR SHEATH MODEL;

PLASMA SHEATHS;

EID: 0034461687     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.902249     Document Type: Article

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