Grid-point requirements for direct kinetic simulation of weakly collisional plasma plume expansion

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2022.111861MaRDI QIDQ2683083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wai Hong Ronald Chan, Iain D. Boyd

Publication date 3 February 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111861

zbMATH Keywords

direct kinetic simulationgrid-point requirementsplasma plume expansionplasma simulationVlasov solverweakly collisional plasmas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65Mxx) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76Mxx) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76Xxx)

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