A Monte-Carlo method for coulomb collisions in hybrid plasma models

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2286-2292

  Sherlock, M ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coulomb collision; Fokker Planck; Hybrid model; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

APPROXIMATE EXPRESSIONS; COULOMB COLLISION; FOKKER PLANCK; HYBRID MODEL; HYBRID PARTICLES; HYBRID PLASMA; MONTE CARLO'S SIMULATION; MONTECARLO METHODS; PARTICLE FLUIDS; PLASMA MODELING;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 55149121236     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.11.037     Document Type: Article

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