A Monte Carlo method for Coulomb collisions in hybrid plasma models

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2007.11.037zbMath1132.76044OpenAlexW1997564403MaRDI QIDQ2478514

M. Sherlock

Publication date: 28 March 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2007.11.037

zbMATH Keywords

dynamic frictionFokker-Planck diffusion coefficientsparticle-fluid model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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