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

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2008.10.025zbMath1157.76059OpenAlexW2072580259MaRDI QIDQ1005375

Don S. Lemons, William Daughton, Brian Albright, Dan Winske

Publication date: 9 March 2009

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2008.10.025

zbMATH Keywords

plasmastochastic differential equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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