Abstract: | 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.
Translated from Chislennye Metody v Matematicheskoi Fizike, Published by Moscow University, Moscow, 1996, pp. 100–109. |