Understanding the accuracy of Nanbu's numerical Coulomb collision operator

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2009.03.041MaRDI QIDQ2390438zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. M. Dimits, Chiaming Wang, B. I. Cohen, Y. Huang, Russel Caflisch

Publication date 22 July 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.03.041

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo methodsnumerical methodsCoulomb collisionscollisional plasmaLorentz collisions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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• A Monte Carlo method with negative particles for Coulomb collisions

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