An efficient energy-conserving numerical model for the electron energy distribution function in the presence of electron-electron collisions

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2010.03.005zbMath1219.81278OpenAlexW2004975185MaRDI QIDQ547006

A. D'Angola, Mario Capitelli, Claudine Gorse, Gianpiero Colonna, G. G. M. Coppa

Publication date: 30 June 2011

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2010.03.005

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationelectron kineticselectron-electron collisionsplasma modeling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Stochastic integral equations (60H20)

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• Four dimensional Fokker-Planck solver for electron kinetics in collisional gas discharge plasmas
• A method to solve the nonlinear kinetic equation of the ``nonlocal approach including Coulomb interaction of electrons
• Numerical methods to solve Euler equations in one-dimensional steady nozzle flow.

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