Plasma and Fusion Research is an electronic journal published by the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research. The journal, covering the wide disciplines of plasma science and technology, is intended to provide an accessible and comprehensive source for analysis and contemporary information and data in every area of plasma and fusion research.

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An open system one-dimensional electrostatic particle code with the improved constant current generator model has been developed. Using this code, we have been able to study various phenomena at electron drift velocities larger than the electron thermal velocity (vd≳vTe), where the original model is not applicable. This figure shows the result of a test simulation for vd=0.7vTe and indicates that the super ion-acoustic double layer discovered by a previous study with the original model is also created.

Cover image from Hiroki HASEGAWA and Tetsuya SATO, Plasma and Fusion Research Vol.5, 020 (2010).