Numerical approximation of the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system in one dimension

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 602-644

  Wollman, Stephen ^a   Ozizmir, Ercument ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Collisional plasma; Particle method; Vlasov Poisson Fokker Planck system

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DETERMINISTICS; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; FOKKER PLANCK; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; ONE DIMENSION; PARTICLE METHODS; SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS; VLASOV-POISSON; VLASOV-POISSON-FOKKE-PLANCK SYSTEM;

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS;

EID: 10244232779     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2004.07.017     Document Type: Article

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