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Modeling of Long-Range Intra- and Inter-Species Charged Particle Collisions for PIC Simulations

D. D'Andrea, C.-D. Munz & R. Schneider

Commun. Comput. Phys., 7 (2010), pp. 877-903.

Published online: 2010-07

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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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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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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.

D. D'Andrea, C.-D. Munz & R. Schneider. (2020). Modeling of Long-Range Intra- and Inter-Species Charged Particle Collisions for PIC Simulations. Communications in Computational Physics. 7 (5). 877-903. doi:10.4208/cicp.2009.09.094
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