Small-angle Coulomb collision model for particle-in-cell simulations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1391-1403

  Lemons, Don S ^a   Winske, Dan ^b   Daughton, William ^b   Albright, Brian ^b  

^a Bethel College Kansas   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collision algorithm; Coulomb collisions in plasmas; Numerical methods; Particle in cell simulation; Plasma simulations; Stochastic differential equations

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; CYTOLOGY; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; PLASMA SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

A-PARTICLES; COLLISION ALGORITHMS; COLLISION MODELING; COULOMB COLLISION; COULOMB COLLISION IN PLASMA; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PLASMA PARTICLES; PLASMA-SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VELOCITY-DEPENDENT;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 58249139319     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.10.025     Document Type: Article

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