Title :
A self-consistent general thermal field emission model
Author_Institution :
Tech-X Corporation, 5621 Arapahoe Avenue Suite A, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. In this work, a self-consistent general thermal field (GTF) emission model is formulated and the space charge effect on the original GTF equation developed by Jensen at NRL is studied analytically. We have also implemented the GTF algorithm in VORPAL, a conformal finite-difference timedomain (CFDTD) particle-in-cell (PIC) code. This analytic model could serve as a benchmark standard for the GTF CFDTD PIC simulations.
Keywords :
Analytical models; Electron emission; Equations; Mathematical model; Space charge; Thermal analysis; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2012 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2127-4
Electronic_ISBN :
0730-9244
DOI :
10.1109/PLASMA.2012.6383346
