Numerical simulations of the charging of dust particles by contact with hot plasmas

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 575-586

  Miloch, W J ^a   Pecseli H L ^a   Trulsen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; NUMERICAL METHOD; PLASMA; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548461131     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-14-575-2007     Document Type: Article

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