Modelling Coulomb Collisions in Anisotropic Plasmas
Abstract
Collisional transport in anisotropic plasmas is investigated comparing the theoretical transport coefficients (Hellinger and Travnicek, 2009) for anisotropic particles with the results of the corresponding Langevin equation, obtained as a generalization of Manheimer et al. (1997). References: Hellinger, P., and P. M. Travnicek (2009), On Coulomb collisions in bi-Maxwellian plasmas, Phys. Plasmas, 16, 054501. Manheimer, W. M., M. Lampe and G. Joyce (1997), Langevin representation of Coulomb collisions in PIC simulations, J. Comput. Phys., 138, 563-584.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2009
- Bibcode:
- 2009AGUFMSH13B1529H
- Keywords:
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- 2164 INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS / Solar wind plasma;
- 7833 SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS / Mathematical and numerical techniques;
- 7859 SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS / Transport processes