Flowing plasmas and absorbing objects: analytic and numerical solutions culminating 80 years of ion-collection theory
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Patacchini, Leonardo
Hutchinson, Ian Horner
Date Issued
November 2010
Journal
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
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Institute of Physics
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Hutchinson, I H, and L Patacchini. “Flowing plasmas and absorbing objects: analytic and numerical solutions culminating 80 years of ion-collection theory.” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 52 (2010): 124005.
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Abstract
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 past profound insights, fully rigorous quantitative solution of the non-linear, multidimensional, self-consistent, kinetic-theory problem has not until recently been feasible. Now we are able to establish the adequacy or inadequacy of approximate treatments, and provide critical quantitative results. In the process, some qualitative surprises have also emerged.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/52/12/124005
