A survey of the numerical methods currently in use to describe the motion of an electron swarm in a weakly ionized gas

DOI10.1080/00411458608212713zbMath0623.76080OpenAlexW2032605722MaRDI QIDQ3761963

M. H. Kadri, Marie-Claude Bordage, Pierre Segur, Mohamed Yousfi

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Transport Theory and Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00411458608212713

zbMATH Keywords

electric fieldBoltzmann equationcontinuity equationtransport theoryMonte-Carlo methodweakly ionized gasmethods of solutionsmotion of an electron swarm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-02) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Cites Work

• The application of a modified form of the \(S_ N\) method to the calculation of swarm parameters of electrons in a weakly ionised equilibrium medium
• The Mathematical Theory of Electrical Discharges in Gases

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