Particle simulation of Coulomb collisions: Comparing the methods of Takizuka & Abe and Nanbu

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4308-4329

  Wang, Chiaming ^a   Lin, Tungyou ^a   Caflisch, Russel ^a   Cohen, Bruce I ^b   Dimits, Andris M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; ERRORS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COULOMB COLLISION; DETERMINISTICS; ERROR COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO MODEL; PARTICLE NUMBERS; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; STATISTICAL ERROR ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC ERRORS; TIME STEP;

CHARGED PARTICLES;

EID: 40849140477     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.12.027     Document Type: Article

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