A new multi-term solution technique for the electron Boltzmann equation of weakly ionized steady-state plasmas

DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(98)00062-9zbMATH Open1074.76649MaRDI QIDQ696757FDOQ696757

Authors: M. C. Fu 

Publication date: 12 September 2002

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

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zbMATH Keywords

partial differential equationsBoundary value problemsOrdinary differential equationsPlasma kinetic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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