Langevin representation of Coulomb collisions for bi-Maxwellian plasmas

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.009zbMath1198.82047OpenAlexW2052648066MaRDI QIDQ983000

Petr Hellinger, Pavel M. 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 equationLangevin equationCoulomb collisionsRosenbluth 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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