Electric sheath and presheath in a collisionless, finite ion temperature plasma

DOI10.1063/1.863062zbMath0422.76077OpenAlexW2059483149MaRDI QIDQ3856360

R. M. Wieland, J. N. Davidson, G. A. Emmert, Allan T. Mense

Publication date: 1980

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863062

zbMATH Keywords

Debye lengthelectrostatic potentialwall potentialnumericallyion distribution functionparticle fluxcollisionlesselectric sheath and presheathfinite ion temperature plasmaion energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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