An efficient energy-conserving numerical model for the electron energy distribution function in the presence of electron-electron collisions

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2010.03.005MaRDI QIDQ547006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. D'Angola, G. Coppa, Mario Capitelli, Claudine Gorse, Gianpiero Colonna

Publication date 30 June 2011

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2010.03.005

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationelectron kineticselectron-electron collisionsplasma modeling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Stochastic integral equations (60H20)

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