3-D simulation of low-temperature plasma development under pulsed conditions

Andrew S. Fierro; James C. Dickens; Andreas A. Neuber

doi:10.1109/TPS.2014.2312137

3-D simulation of low-temperature plasma development under pulsed conditions

Andrew S. Fierro, James C. Dickens, Andreas A. Neuber

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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The development of a low-temperature plasma in a needle-protrusion to plane gap is investigated utilizing a 3-D particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision method implemented to run on single NVIDIA graphics processing unit. In addition to electron collisions, the model includes field detachment, photon tracking, and a drift-diffusion approximation for positive ions. The simulated geometry tracks several million electrons with 15-μm spatial resolution.

Original language	English
Article number	6779603
Pages (from-to)	2864-2865
Number of pages	2
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume	42
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2014.2312137
State	Published - Oct 1 2014

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Breakdown
particle-in-cell
plasmas
simulation.

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