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  • Tl;dr
  • Install
  • Quickstart
  • Userguide
  • Numerics
  • Models
  • Geometry
  • Fluid equilibrium
    • Kinetic Equilibrium
    • Perturbation functions
    • Propagators
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  • Tl;dr
  • Install
  • Quickstart
  • Userguide
  • Numerics
  • Models
  • Geometry
  • Fluid equilibrium
  • Kinetic Equilibrium
  • Perturbation functions
  • Propagators
  • Struphy repo
  • Struphy LinkedIn
  • Struphy MatrixChat

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Contents:

  • Tl;dr
  • Install
  • Quickstart
  • Userguide
  • Numerics
  • Models
  • Geometry
  • Fluid equilibrium
  • Kinetic Equilibrium
  • Perturbation functions
  • Propagators

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Base classes

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Available Maxwellians

  • Kinetic Equilibrium

Kinetic Equilibrium#

Kinetic equilibria (or backgrounds) are often the starting point of dynamical plasma simulations. In Struphy they can be used for setting Initial conditions, or for providing the background in “\(\delta f\)-models”, where solutions are computed w.r.t a given background.

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  • Available Maxwellians
    • Maxwellian3D
    • GyroMaxwellian2D
    • CanonicalMaxwellian
    • ColdPlasma
  • Base classes
    • KineticBackground
    • SumKineticBackground
    • ScalarMultiplyKineticBackground
    • Maxwellian

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