Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-tn8tq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-22T09:32:03.777Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Special issue: Collisions in collisionless plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2014

F. Valentini*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá della Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy
*
Email address for correspondence: francesco.valentini@fis.unical.it
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The special issue ‘Collisions in collisionless plasmas’ is intended to provide a collection of relevant contributions from different scientific fields in plasma physics, including experiments, theory, and numerical modeling, focused on the role of collisions on the dynamical evolution of weakly collisional plasma systems.

Type
Editorial
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

References

REFERENCES

Daughton, W., Roytershteyn, V., Albright, B. J., Karimabadi, H., Yin, L. and Bowers, K. J. 2009 Influence of Coulomb collisions on the structure of reconnection layers. Phys. Plasmas 16, 072117.Google Scholar
Dougherty, J. P. 1964 Model Fokker–Planck equation for a plasma and its solution. Phys. Fluids 7, 1788.Google Scholar
Pareschi, L., Russo, L. G. and Toscani, G. 2000 Fast spectral methods for the Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator. J. Comput. Phys. 165, 216236.Google Scholar
Takizuka, T. and Abe, H. 1977 A binary collision model for plasma simulation with a particle code. J. Comput. Phys. 25, 205219.Google Scholar