A PIC based procedure for the integration of multiple time scale problems in gas discharge physics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1017-1029

  Soria Hoyo, C ^a   Pontiga, F ^a   Castellanos, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computational technique; Corona discharge; Drift diffusion approximation; Glow discharge; Numerical simulation; Particle in cell method; Plasma reactions

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CORONA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA SIMULATION;

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; CORONA DISCHARGES; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; DRIFT-DIFFUSION APPROXIMATION; ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES; GAS DISCHARGE; MULTIPLE TIME SCALE; PARTICLE IN CELL METHOD; PLASMA REACTIONS; TIME STEP;

GLOW DISCHARGES;

EID: 58149152978     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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