Test-particle simulation of space plasmas

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 471-483

  Marchand, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

First order kinetic modelling; Space plasmas; Test particle method

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952713475     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.201009.280110a     Document Type: Article

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