Mathematical modeling of plasma opening switches

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 34-54

  Deluzet, Fabrice ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Collisional plasma; Drift diffusion model; Implicit methods; Maxwell's equations; Particle methods; Plasma opening switch

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PLASMA OSCILLATIONS;

PLASMA OPENING SWITCHES;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 0037447592     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00796-8     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. J.U. Brackbill, Numerical Methods for charged Particles, Méthodes numériques en transport de particules chargées, école d'été du GDR SPARCH, Septembre 1993.
2. Birdsall C.K., Langdon A.B. Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation. 1983;McGraw-Hill, New York.
3. Brackbill J.U., Forslund D.W. An implicit method for electromagnetic plasma simulation in two dimensions. J. Comput. Phys. 46:1982;271-308.
4. Cassany B., Grua P. Analysis of the operating regimes of microsecond-conduction time plasma opening switches. J. Appl. Phys. 78:(1):1995;67-76.
5. Chubatin A.S., Kim A.A., Kokshenev V.A., Loginov S.V. Hall MHD model of microsecond plasma opening switch and its application to experiments on a pulsed current generator installation. Russian Phys. J. 40:(12):1997;1169-1177.
6. A. Decoster, M. Desmoulins, G. Schurtz, Interpénétration de Plasmas: équations fluides et simulations, Unpublished.
7. Degond P., Lucquin-Desreux B. The asymptotics of collision operators for two species of particles of disparate masses. Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 6:(3):1996;405-436.
8. Degond P., Lucquin-Desreux B. Transport coefficients of plasmas and disparate mass binary gases. Transport Theory Statist. Phys. 25:(6):1996;595-633.
9. peΔt≫1 . J. Comput. Phys. 42:1981;337-366.
10. Harlow F. Alder B., FernBach S., Rotenberg M. The particle-in-cell method for fluid dynamics. Methods in Computational Physics. 3:1964;Academic Press, New York.
11. Hewett D.W., Langdon A.B. Electromagnetic direct plasma simulation. J. Comput. Phys. 72:1987;121-155.
12. Hockney R.W., Eastwood J.W. Computer Simulation Using Particles. 1981;McGraw-Hill, New York.
13. Langdon A.B., Barnes D.C. Direct implicit plasma simulation. Multiple Time Scales. 1985;335-375 Academic Press, New York.
14. Lapenta G., Iionya F., Brackbill J.U. Particle-in-cell simulation of glow discharges in complex geometries. IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 23:1995.
15. Mason R.J. Implicit moment PIC-hybrid simulation of collisional plasmas. J. Comput. Phys. 51:1983;484-501.
16. Mason R.J. An electromagnetic field algorithm for 2D implicit plasma simulation. J. Comput. Phys. 71:1987;429-473.
17. Mason R.J., Wallace J.M., Grossmann J.M., Ottinger P.F. Implicit collisional three-fluid simulation of the plasma erosion opening switch. IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 15:(6):1987;715-724.
18. Méhats F., Roquejoffre J.-M. A nonlinear oblique derivative boundary value problem for the heat equation. Part 1: Basic results, Part 2: Singular self-similar solutions. Analyse Non Linéaire, Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré 16:1999;221-253.
19. Mottez F., Adam J.C., Heron A. A new guiding centre PIC scheme for electromagnetic highly magnetized plasma simulation. Comput. Phys. Comm. 113:1998;109-130.
20. Y. Saad, SPARSKIT: a basic tool kit for sparse matrix computations, 12 (1) (1994) 461-467.
21. Vila J.P. Weighted particle methods and smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 9:(2):1999;161-209.
22. Wallace J.M., Brackbill J.U., Forslund D.W. An implicit moment electromagnetic plasma simulation in cylindrical coordinates. J. Comput. Phys. 63:1986;434-457.
23. Waisman E.M., Steen P.G., Parks D.E., Wilson A. Switching of low density diode plasma. Appl. Phys. Lett. 46:(11):1985;1045-1046.
24. Westermann T. A particle-in-cell method as a tool for diode simulations. Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A. 263:1988;434-457.