Hybrid plasma modeling.

Hopkins, Matthew Morgan ; DeChant, Lawrence Justin. ; Piekos, Edward Stanley ; Pointon, Timothy David

Sandia National Laboratories

关键词: Work Plasma Dynamics-Research.;    Plasma Physics;    70 Plasma Physics And Fusion Technology;    Interfaces;    Kinetics;   

DOI  :  10.2172/983666
RP-ID  :  SAND2009-0963
RP-ID  :  AC04-94AL85000
RP-ID  :  983666

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report summarizes the work completed during FY2007 and FY2008 for the LDRD project ''Hybrid Plasma Modeling''. The goal of this project was to develop hybrid methods to model plasmas across the non-continuum-to-continuum collisionality spectrum. The primary methodology to span these regimes was to couple a kinetic method (e.g., Particle-In-Cell) in the non-continuum regions to a continuum PDE-based method (e.g., finite differences) in continuum regions. The interface between the two would be adjusted dynamically ased on statistical sampling of the kinetic results. Although originally a three-year project, it became clear during the second year (FY2008) that there were not sufficient resources to complete the project and it was terminated mid-year.