An Implicit Energy-Conservative 2D Fokker-Planck Algorithm: I. Difference Scheme

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 618-653

  Chacon L ^a   Barnes, D C ^b   Knoll, D A ^b   Miley, G H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservative discretization; Energy conservative Fokker Planck; Plasma simulation

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; STRESS TENSOR;

COLLISION OPERATORS; CONSERVATIVE DISCRETIZATION; DIFFERENCE SCHEMES; DISCRETIZATIONS; ENERGY; ENERGY-CONSERVATIVE FOKKE-PLANCK; FOKKER PLANCK; FOKKER-PLANCK-EQUATION; NUMERICAL ENERGY; PLASMA-SIMULATION;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 0034687922     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6394     Document Type: Article

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