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Title: A test for the viability of fluid codes in the collisionless regime. Interim report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7346062

A collisionless unmagnetized plasma can multistream. Therefore, it is not clear to what extent fluid codes can be used to describe its motion. A simple test is presented here which shows when a collisionless plasma multistreams. If a temperature equation formulation of the energy equation is used, it is shown that the system continuously and unavoidably loses energy when multistreaming occurs. (GRA)

Research Organization:
Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C. (USA)
OSTI ID:
7346062
Report Number(s):
AD-A-011815; NRL-MR-3053
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English