Comparison of Aleph and BOLSIG+ Results for Electron-Nitrogen Chemistry

Technical Report · Sat Nov 01 04:00:00 EDT 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1561682· OSTI ID:1561682

Hopkins, Matthew M. ^[1]; Crozier, Paul S. ^[1]; Moore, Christopher Hudson ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

The goal of this report is to document the current status of Aleph with regards to electron collisions under an electric field. Aleph and the community-accepted BOLSIG+ code are both used to compute reactions rates for a set of 25 electron-nitrogen interactions. A reasonable comparison is found (see below) providing evidence that Aleph is successfully simulating or implementing: (1) Particle-particle collision cross-sections via DSMC methodology, (2) Energy balance for simple particle interactions, and (3) Electron energy distribution function (EEDF) evolution

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1561682
• Report Number(s): SAND--2014-19653; 642729
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY