Kinetic simulation of bounded plasmas with the BLOB method

Author

Coppa, Gianni G M ; Dellapiana, Gianluca ; Lapenta, Giovanni

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Energetica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Volume

24

Issue

1

fYear

1996

fDate

2/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

13

Abstract

In the industrial applications of plasmas, the interaction of charged particles with the surfaces of the reactor chamber is extremely important. Considerable effort is being devoted to study the formation and the properties of the sheath near confining structures or around solid objects immersed in a plasma. In this paper, results obtained by using the BLOB method to simulate collisionless sheaths are presented. The BLOB method is based on the particle-in-cell (PIC) approach, but uses particles with additional degrees of freedom to describe their size and shape

Keywords

plasma kinetic theory; plasma sheaths; plasma simulation; BLOB method; bounded plasmas; charged particles; collisionless sheaths; confining structures; kinetic simulation; particle-in-cell approach; plasma industrial applications; reactor chamber surfaces; Computational modeling; Electrodes; Electrons; Kinetic theory; Plasma applications; Plasma confinement; Plasma properties; Plasma sheaths; Plasma simulation; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/27.491666

Filename

491666