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A numerical solution algorithm for the spatially inhomogeneous equations of kinetic breakdown

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A computational algorithm is described, based on the total approximation method. The discussion is centered on the example of the model problem of laser break-down of high-pressure atomic nitrogen near a metallic surface.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 629–638, October, 1988.

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Bochkov, M.V., Chetverushkin, B.N. A numerical solution algorithm for the spatially inhomogeneous equations of kinetic breakdown. Journal of Engineering Physics 55, 1154–1160 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01155226

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