Simultaneous potential and circuit solution for 1D bounded plasma particle simulation codes

Journal Article · Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1993 · Journal of Computational Physics; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1993.1034· OSTI ID:6622797

Verboncoeur, J P; Vahedi, V; Birdsall, C K ^[1]; Alves, M V ^[2]

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1. Univ. of California, Berkeley (United States)
2. Institute for Space Research (INPE), S.J. dos Campos (Brazil)

A general second-order accurate method for solving the combined potential and circuit equations in a one-dimensional electrostatic bounded plasma PIC simulation is presented. The boundary conditions include surface charge on the electrodes, which are connected to a series RLC circuit with driving terms V(t) or l(t). The solution is obtained for planar, cylindrical, and spherical electrodes. The result is a tridiagonal matrix which is readily solved using well-known methods. The method is implemented in the codes PDPL (plasma device planar 1 D), PDC1 (cylindrical), and PDS1 (spherical).

• OSTI ID: 6622797
• Journal Information: Journal of Computational Physics; (United States), Vol. 104:2; ISSN 0021-9991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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