From: "J. Manuel Urrutia" <urrutia@ucla.edu>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Modeling a plasma around a probe
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA


Paal Berg wrote:
>
> I'm trying to find a model for a probe in a plasma consisting of ions > and electrons. The probe is held at a stationary potential and I'm
> interested in the particle trajectories given by electric(E) and
> magnetic(B) fields. Some facts about the problem:
SNIP...
> Literature about solving this numerically is hard to find. If anyone
> have some suggestions of literature, you can also mail me.

At the risk of bringing coal to Newcastle, have you checked the
extensive work of Laframboise? You should find his publications in
Physics of Plasmas and its predecessors, as well as cited in most
probe-related work (including a book by Hershkovitz [sp?]). Judging
from the number of papers, several Ph.D.s have been minted treating this
problem. Alas, it still does not include, as far as I know, the solution
to the time-domain problem.

Good luck...

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