Time Dependence in Plasma Codes
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Time-dependent plasma codes are a natural extension of static nonequilibrium plasma codes. Comparing relevant timescales will determine whether or not time-dependent treatment is necessary. In this article I outline the ingredients for a time-dependent plasma code in a homogeneous medium and discuss the computational method. In the second half of the article I describe recombination in the early Universe as a detailed example of a problem whose solution requires a time-dependent plasma code.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0106212,
title = {Time Dependence in Plasma Codes},
author = {S. Seager},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0106212},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Invited review talk for The Challenge of High Resolution X-ray Through IR Spectroscopy conference. 16 pages incl. 6 figures