A PIC-MCC code for simulation of streamer propagation in air

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2008.04.016MaRDI QIDQ934121zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors O. Chanrion, T. Neubert

Publication date 29 July 2008

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2008.04.016

zbMATH Keywords

streamer propagation in air

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric optics (78A05)

Review text

In this work a code, for the investigation of the distribution and acceleration of electrons in electric discharge in air, is presented. The code can follow the evolution of a discharge from the initial stage of a single free electron in a background electric field to the formation of an electron avalanche and its transition into a streamer. The code is in 2D axisymmetric coordinates, allowing quasi 3D simulations during the initial stages of streamer formation.

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Cites work

• An adaptive grid refinement strategy for the simulation of negative streamers
• LAPACK Users' Guide
• Symmetric spline weighting for charge and current density in particle simulation

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(13)

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• PIC-MCC
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• Thermal electrons and electric current generated by runaway breakdown effect
• Controlling the weights of simulation particles: adaptive particle management using k-d trees
• NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE FORMATION AND PROPAGATION OF STREAMER
• Density models for streamer discharges: beyond cylindrical symmetry and homogeneous media
• Spatially hybrid computations for streamer discharges. II: Fully 3D simulations
• Particle-in-cell simulation of electrical gas discharges
• Parallelization and optimization of electrostatic particle-in-cell/Monte-Carlo coupled codes as applied to RF discharges
• Stochastic and self-consistent 3D modeling of streamer discharge trees with Kinetic Monte Carlo
• A performant energy-conserving particle reweighting method for particle-in-cell simulations
• Mathematical models and numerical methods for high-fidelity simulation of ignition of reactive mixtures by nanosecond plasma discharges in realistic configurations

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Uses Software

• LAPACK

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