Bounce-averaged ion Fokker-Planck code for Penning fusion devices

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 183-208

  Chacon L ^a,b   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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTROSTATICS; FUNCTIONS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMAS;

BOUNCE-AVERAGED FOKKER-PLANCK CODE (BAFP); INERTIAL ELECTROSTATIC CONFINEMENT (IEC); PENNING TRAPS;

FUSION REACTORS;

EID: 0035251968     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4655(00)00200-9     Document Type: Article

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