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Application of the particle method to simulate one-dimensional bounded plasma with a distributed sources

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We consider the behavior of a plasma bounded in the longitudinal direction by absorbing walls. The model contains charged particles (electrons and ions) moving in the direction of an external magnetic field with two velocity components: longitudinal and transverse. The charged particles are created in pairs by a distributed source. The working model is based on the electrostatic “particles in a cell” method augmented by Emmert's model for a volume source and a model of binary Coulomb particle collisions using the Monte Carlo method. Calculation results are reported for a model with electron-ion collisions and for a collisionless plasma model.

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  1. D. S. Filippychev
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Translated from Chislennye Metody v Matematicheskoi Fizike, Published by Moscow University, Moscow, 1996, pp. 100–109.

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Filippychev, D.S. Application of the particle method to simulate one-dimensional bounded plasma with a distributed sources. Comput Math Model 8, 135–143 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02405163

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