Plasma self-heating and saturation due to numerical instabilities

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(80)90171-0zbMath0425.76108MaRDI QIDQ1135727

Charles K. Birdsall, Neil Maron

Publication date: 1980

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(80)90171-0

zbMATH Keywords

simulation results; trapping; numerical instabilities; linear analysis dispersion diagrams; momentum-conserving linear weighting codes; plasma self-heating and saturation; spatial grid; thermal Maxwellian plasma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65C20: Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics

76X05: Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow

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