Temperature equilibration rate with Fermi-Dirac statistics

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Brown, Lowell S ^a   Singleton, Robert L ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; PLASMAS; SCATTERING;

ENERGY EXCHANGE; PRINCIPLES CALCULATION;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 40749159510     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.066404     Document Type: Article

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