Numerical solution of plasma fluid equations using locally refined grids

DOI10.1006/JCPH.1999.6245MaRDI QIDQ1302925zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Phillip Colella, Milo R. Dorr, Daniel D. Wake

Publication date 22 September 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc623198/

zbMATH Keywords

energy equationsemiconductorsPoisson's equationdrift-diffusion modelplasma fluid equationsblock-structured locally refined gridseffect of electrostatic forcesEuler equations for ion species

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

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