Langevin representation of Coulomb collisions for bi-Maxwellian plasmas

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 5432-5439

  Hellinger, P ^a,b   Trávníček, Pavel M ^a,b,c  

^a ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi Maxwellian distribution function; Coulomb collisions; Langevin equation; Stochastic differential equation

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BI-MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; COULOMB COLLISION; FOKKER-PLANCK-EQUATION; LANGEVIN; LANGEVIN EQUATION; LANGEVIN MODELS; MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MAXWELLIAN PLASMAS; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION;

EID: 77952875539     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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