Effects of collisions on the generation and suppression of temperature anisotropies and the Weibel instability
The expansion of plasma with nonparallel temperature and density gradients and the generation of a magnetic field via the Biermann battery is modeled using particle-in-cell simulations that include collisional effects via Monte Carlo methods. A scaling of the degree of collisionality shows that an a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2020-08-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033233 |