1 dimensional atmospheric Particle-In-Cell plasma simulation on the GPU

Summary form only given. Non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure discharges provide an attractive area of industrial interest, largely due to their relative ease of operation and usefulness in fields such as surface treatment of plastics, medical surfaces or even tissue¹. In recent years there has therefore been a mounting interest in characterising these types of discharges numerically through simulation, as well as through experiment. However due to the computational intensity and complex physics of atmospheric pressure discharges most of the simulation work has been done using the fluid approximation, as opposed to the directly kinetic treatment of the Particle-In-Cell/Monte Carlo collisions approach². As a result of these simplifications, the quantitative validity of these simulations has been previously questioned in the literature^3,4.