NORSE: a solver for the relativistic non-linear Fokker-Planck equation for electrons in a homogeneous plasma

DOI10.1016/j.cpc.2016.10.024zbMath1380.65183arXiv1608.02742OpenAlexW2478395204MaRDI QIDQ1685674

Peng Zhang

Publication date: 19 December 2017

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02742

zbMATH Keywords

energetic electronskinetic plasma theorynonlinear relativistic Fokker-Planck equationrunaway electrons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84)

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• CQL3D
• DKE

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