Particle simulation of Coulomb collisions: Comparing the methods of Takizuka & Abe and Nanbu

Chiaming Wang; Tungyou Lin; Russel Caflisch; Bruce I. Cohen; Andris M. Dimits

doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2007.12.027

Particle simulation of Coulomb collisions: Comparing the methods of Takizuka & Abe and Nanbu

Chiaming Wang, Tungyou Lin, Russel Caflisch, Bruce I. Cohen, Andris M. Dimits

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The interactions of charged particles in a plasma are governed by long-range Coulomb collision. We compare two widely used Monte Carlo models for Coulomb collisions. One was developed by Takizuka and Abe in 1977, the other was developed by Nanbu in 1997. We perform deterministic and statistical error analysis with respect to particle number and time step. The two models produce similar stochastic errors, but Nanbu's model gives smaller time step errors. Error comparisons between these two methods are presented.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4308-4329
Number of pages	22
Journal	Journal of Computational Physics
Volume	227
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2007.12.027
State	Published - Apr 20 2008

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Computer Science Applications
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