Time Dependence in Plasma Codes

2001/06/12 by Sara Seager, S. Seager, Seager, S.
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithms and Data Compression #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Coding theory and cryptography #Error Correcting Code Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0106212

Invited review talk for The Challenge of High Resolution X-ray Through IR Spectroscopy conference. 16 pages incl. 6 figures

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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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