Two dimensional investigation of ion acoustic waves reflection from the sheath

Summary form only given, as follows. Preliminary results show that oblique ion waves propagate from the bulk plasma into and all the way through the sheath in both 1D and 2D simulation. These waves are launched from one side of the system with a AC voltage or a current source with a frequency less than the ion plasma frequency. Our one and initial two dimensional PIC simulations show the details of densities, potentials, fields, particle moments and time-distance plots of the average density minus the instantaneous density. From the time-distance plot the direction and magnitude of the ion acoustic wave is measured. From this the coefficients of reflection and transmission as a function of the incident angle is calculated. Our observations will be compared with laboratory experiments and theory.