COulomb COllision Solver

The COSolver, COulomb COllision Solver, contructs the linearized Hermite-Laguerre collisional matrix for the MOLI Linear Solver. In particular, it considers the GK full Coulomb Collision operator. It computes the collisional matrix for like-species, electron-ion, and ion-electron. For ions, a single hydrogenic species is currently implemented.

The version of the code is a migration of the previous drift-kinetic Mathematica solver implemented by R. Jorge to Fortran allowing a better protability of the Collision Solver.

Authors:

• Baptiste J. Frei, SPC/Lausanne
• Louis N. Stenger, MSc physics student/CSE semester project

Contact:

baptiste.frei@epfl.ch