Langevin representation of Coulomb collisions for bi-Maxwellian plasmas

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2010.04.009MaRDI QIDQ983000zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Petr Hellinger, P. Trávníček

Publication date 28 July 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.009

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationCoulomb collisionsLangevin equationRosenbluth potentialsbi-Maxwellian distribution functiontemperature anisotropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

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