Hirotake Sugawara and Y Sakai 1999 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 32 1671 doi:10.1088/0022-3727/32/14/320
An analysis of transverse evolution of electron swarms in gases using moment equations and a propagator method
Hirotake Sugawara and Y Sakai
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Issue 14 (21 July 1999)
Received 27 April 1999
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