Fingering from ionization fronts in plasmas

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1122-1145

  Arrayás, Manuel ^a   Betelú, Santiago ^b   Fontelos, Marco A ^c   Trueba, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fingering instabilities; Ionization fronts; Pattern formation; Plasmas

Indexed keywords

DESTABILIZING EFFECTS; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; ELECTRON DIFFUSION; ELECTRON DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; FINGERING INSTABILITIES; HELE-SHAW; IONIZATION FRONTS; PATTERN FORMATION; PLASMA MODELING; SAFFMAN-TAYLOR; STABILIZING EFFECTS; STEFAN PROBLEMS; TRAVELING WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; IONIZATION; MODEL STRUCTURES; PLASMAS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE DIFFUSION; SURFACE TENSION;

IMPACT IONIZATION;

EID: 49449118560     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050647074     Document Type: Article

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