2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2025
Drift-cyclotron loss-cone instability in 3D simulations of a sloshing-ion simple mirror
Aaron Tran, Samuel J. Frank, Ari Y. Le +11
The kinetic stability of collisionless, sloshing beam-ion (45° pitch angle) plasma is studied in a 3D simple magnetic mirror, mimicking the Wisconsin High-temperature superconduct…
physics.comp-ph2024
A multiscale hybrid Maxwellian-Monte-Carlo Coulomb collision algorithm for particle simulations
G. Chen, A. J. Stanier, L. Chacón +2
Coulomb collisions in particle simulations for weakly coupled plasmas are modeled by the Landau-Fokker-Planck equation, which is typically solved by Monte-Carlo (MC) methods. One o…