MHD-to-PIC transition for modeling of conduction and opening in a plasma opening switch

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 479-493

  Schumer, Joseph W ^b   Swanekamp, Stephen B ^c   Ottinger, Paul F ^a,b   Commisso, Robert J ^a,b   Weber, Bruce V ^b   Smithe, David N ^d   Ludeking, Larry D ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetohydrodynamic simulation; Opening switches; Particle in cell simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; HALL EFFECT; LOW TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

INDUCTIVE-ENERGY-STORAGE PULSED-POWER GENERATORS; NUMERICAL COOLING ALGORITHM; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATION; PLASMA OPENING SWITCHES;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0035362081     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.928946     Document Type: Article

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