TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling of Long-Range Intra- and Inter-Species Charged Particle Collisions for PIC Simulations
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 5
SP - 877
EP - 903
PY - 2010
DA - 2010/07
SN - 7
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.2009.09.094
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7658.html
KW - 
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p>