Artificial Cooling Due to Quiet Injection in Bounded Plasma Particle Simulations,

Abstract

An explanation is proposed for an artificial cooling effect seen in electrostatic particle-in-cell plasma simulations. Further simulations are done which test and support the explanation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 21, 1987
Accession Number
ADA183324

Entities

People

  • William S. Lawson

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buildings And Structures
  • Charge Density
  • Collisions
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Distribution Functions
  • Electric Fields
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Equations
  • Fokker Planck Equations
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Low Temperature
  • Particles
  • Short Wavelengths
  • Simulations
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics