PK-4: Complex plasmas in space - The next generation

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2 II, 2007, Pages 255-259

  Thoma, Markus H ^a   Fink, Martin A ^a   Höfner, Herwig H ^a   Kretschmer, Michael ^a   Khrapak, Sergey A ^a   Ratynskaia, Svetlana V ^a   Yaroshenko, Victoria V ^a   Morfill, Gregor E ^a   Petrov, Oleg F ^b   Usachev, Alexander D ^b   Zobnin, Andrey V ^b   Fortov, Vladimir E ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Complex plasmas; dc rf discharge; Fluid simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROGRAVITY; PLASMA TURBULENCE; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE FLIGHT;

COMPLEX PLASMAS; FLUID SIMULATION;

PLASMA APPLICATIONS;

EID: 34247378259     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2007.893750     Document Type: Article

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