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Title: INTERACTIONS OF FLOWING PLASMA WITH COLLECTING SPHERE/OBJECTS

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1127244· OSTI ID:1127244

The proposer’s computational flowing plasma group, supported in part by NSF/DOE since 2006, has been enormously productive. It has published 22 journal articles, of which 3 are in Physical Review Letters; received a total of 330 citations, and made 5 invited and numerous contributed presentations at international conferences. In addition, other groups have published at least 3 papers [20-22] based upon results they have obtained from the SCEPTIC code, developed by the proposer. The codes developed for this subject are Particle In Cell (PIC) codes, representing the entire ion distribution function and its variation in space in the vicinity of an absorbing object.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-06ER54891
OSTI ID:
1127244
Report Number(s):
NSF/DOE-HUTCH-ER54891
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English