Studying Effects of Coulomb Collisions on the Temperature of Solar Wind Electrons Using Cylindrical VPIC Simulations

Harsha Gurram1,2, Jan Egedal2, Stas Boldyrev2 and Adam Stanier3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States