A numerical code for the calculation of relativistic electron cyclotron damping with an arbitrary distribution function at an arbitrary harmonic

Abstract
The relativistic expressions for the anti-Hermitian parts of the relativistic dielectric tensor elements can be expressed as a single integral over the parallel momentum variable, allowing an arbitrary electron distribution function. A computer program has been written for the calculation of this single integral. The numerical results are tested for a relativistic Maxwellian distribution function and agree with analytical expressions for this case. The numerical code is therefore an essential...

Title of program: DAMPING
Catalogue Id: AEIS_v1_0

Nature of problem
The computer program calculates generalized expressions for the anti-Hermitian part of the relativistic dielectric tensor in a plasma for an arbitrary distribution function, with comparison to the analytical expressions derived in [1], associated with a relativistic Maxwellian distribution, for any n-th cyclotron harmonic and for the relativistic Landau damping case when n =0. The anti-Hermitian parts of the dielectric tensor are important to know, since they determine the damping or emission of ...

Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data
AEIS_v1_0; DAMPING; 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.03.021

This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018)