Year: 2010
Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 7 (2010), Iss. 5 : pp. 877–903
Abstract
In this paper we present the modelling of elastic intra-species electron-electron and inter-species electron-ion scattering in a plasma on the basis of the Fokker-Planck collision operator. Taking into account the equivalence of this operator with a stochastic differential equation, we propose a Particle-in-Cell based approach for the numerical solution of the Fokker-Planck collision term. As we will see, the introduced numerical concept allows the simulation of the collisional relaxation process in a fully self-consistent fashion.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.2009.09.094
Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 7 (2010), Iss. 5 : pp. 877–903
Published online: 2010-01
AMS Subject Headings: Global Science Press
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 27