Flowing plasmas and absorbing objects: analytic and numerical solutions culminating 80 years of ion-collection theory

Recent computational and theoretical progress in understanding and calculating ion collection by negatively charged absorbing objects in a flowing plasma is outlined. The results are placed in the context of key theoretical achievements of prior research. Despite the topic's long history, and p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Patacchini, Leonardo, Hutchinson, Ian Horner
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66888