Creation of spatial charge separation in plasmas with rigorously charge-conserving local electromagnetic field solvers

DOI10.1006/JCPH.2002.7077MaRDI QIDQ697762zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Othmer, Uwe Motschmann, Karl-Heinz Glassmeier

Publication date 17 September 2002

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.2002.7077

zbMATH Keywords

initial-boundary value problemplasma physicselectromagneticelectron and ion beamspartial-difference equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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