Collisional effects on nonlinear ion drag force for small grains

The ion drag force arising from plasma flow past an embedded spherical grain is calculated self-consistently and non-linearly using particle in cell codes, accounting for ion-neutral collisions. Using ion velocity distribution appropriate for ion drift driven by a force field gives wake potential an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Haakonsen, Christian Bernt, Hutchinson, Ian Horner
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95826
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8899-7479