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

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2010.03.005zbMATH Open1219.81278OpenAlexW2004975185MaRDI QIDQ547006FDOQ547006

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

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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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