Fokker-Planck calculations on relaxation of anisotropic velocity distributions in plasmas

1 July 1987

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 36 (1) , 397-399
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.36.397

Abstract

A Fokker-Planck code in which the Rosenbluth potentials are calculated from the anisotropic distribution function has been employed to study the isotropization of initially highly anisotropic velocity distributions. The results show a fundamental difference between the isotropization of oblate and prolate distributions.

Keywords

FOKKER PLANCK
FUNCTION
ANISOTROPIC
OBLATE
ROSENBLUTH
PROLATE
RELAXATION
VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS

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