Plasma self-heating and saturation due to numerical instabilities

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(80)90171-0zbMath0425.76108OpenAlexW1972044921MaRDI QIDQ1135727

Charles K. Birdsall, Neil Maron

Publication date: 1980

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(80)90171-0

zbMATH Keywords

simulation resultstrappingnumerical instabilitieslinear analysis dispersion diagramsmomentum-conserving linear weighting codesplasma self-heating and saturationspatial gridthermal Maxwellian plasma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics (65C20) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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