Comparison of relativistic runaway electron avalanche rates obtained from Monte Carlo simulations and kinetic equation solution

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 430-438

  Babich, Leonid P ^a   Donskoy, Evgenii N ^a   Kutsyk, Igor M ^a   Kudryavtsev, Andrei Yu ^a   Roussel Dupré, Robert A ^b   Shamraev, Boris N ^a   Symbalisty, Eugene M D ^b  

^a RUSSIAN FEDERAL NUCLEAR CENTER VNIIEF   (Russian Federation)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche; Kinetic equation; Monte Carlo; Runaway electrons

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BOLTZMANN CALCULATION; KINETIC EQUATION; RELATIVISTIC RUNAWAY ELECTRON RATES;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 0035363505     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.928940     Document Type: Article

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