Understanding the accuracy of Nanbu's numerical Coulomb collision operator

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4881-4892

  Dimits, Andris M ^a   Wang, Chiaming ^b   Caflisch, Russel ^b   Cohen, Bruce I ^a   Huang, Yanghong ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collisional plasma; Coulomb collisions; Lorentz collisions; Monte Carlo methods; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; DECAY (ORGANIC); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETERIZATION;

COLLISION OPERATORS; COULOMB COLLISION; LORENTZ; LORENTZ COLLISION; MASS RATIO; MONTE CARLO COLLISION; MONTECARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PITCH-ANGLE SCATTERING; TIME STEP;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 68649113293     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.03.041     Document Type: Article

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