Comment on "Improvements for drift-diffusion plasma fluid models with explicit time integration"

Abstract

Recently, J. Teunissen reported a fully explicit method, namely the current-limit approach, which claimed to overcome the dielectric relaxation time restriction for the drift-diffusion plasma fluid model. In this comment, we point out that the current-limit approach is not mathematically consistent, and discuss about the possible reason why the inconsistency was not visibly noticed.