Patching Collisionless Plasma and Sheath Solutions to Approximate the Plasma-Wall Problem

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 31, Issue 6 II, 2003, Pages 1395-1401

  Sternberg, Natalia ^a   Godyak, Valery ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OSRAM SYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Patching; Plasma; Plasma wall problem; Sheath

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; FLUXES; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA DENSITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PATCHING; PLASMA WALL PROBLEM; SHEATH;

PLASMAS;

EID: 1442287478     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2003.821354     Document Type: Article

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