Langevin representation of Coulomb collisions for bi-Maxwellian plasmas
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Publication:983000
DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.009zbMath1198.82047MaRDI QIDQ983000
Petr Hellinger, Pavel M. Trávníček
Publication date: 28 July 2010
Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.009
Fokker-Planck equation; Langevin equation; Coulomb collisions; Rosenbluth potentials; bi-Maxwellian distribution function; temperature anisotropy
82C31: Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics
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