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Title: AETHER: A simulation platform for inductively coupled plasma

Abstract

An in-house code is developed to simulate the inductively coupled plasma (ICP). The model comprises the fluid, electromagnetic and transformer submodels. Fluid equations are solved to evaluate the plasma flow parameters, including the plasma and neutral densities, ion and neutral velocities, electron flux, electron temperature, and electric potential. The model relies on the ambipolar approximation and offers the evaluation of plasma parameters without solving the sheath region. The electromagnetic model handles the calculation of the electric and magnetic fields using the magnetic vector potential. The transformer model captures the effect of the matching circuit utilized in laboratory experiments for RF power deposition. The continuity and momentum equations are solved using finite volume method. The energy, electric potential, and magnetic vector potential equations are solved using finite difference method. The resulting linear systems of equations are solved with iterative solvers including Jacobi and GMRES. The code is written using the C++ programming language, it works in parallel and has graphical user interface. The model is applied to study ICP characteristics of a plasma confined within a cylindrical chamber with dielectric walls for two different power deposition cases. The results obtained from the developed model are verified using the plasma module ofmore » COMSOL Multiphysics. The model is also applied to a plasma source configuration, and it is demonstrated that there is an overall increase in the plasma potential when current is extracted from ICP with a biased wall electrode.« less

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Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22465615
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Computational Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 286; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9991
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; COMPUTER CODES; CYLINDRICAL CONFIGURATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MODELS; ION DENSITY; ION THRUSTERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NEUTRAL PARTICLES; PLASMA; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA POTENTIAL; PLASMA SIMULATION

Citation Formats

Turkoz, Emre, and Celik, Murat. AETHER: A simulation platform for inductively coupled plasma. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/J.JCP.2015.01.027.
Turkoz, Emre, & Celik, Murat. AETHER: A simulation platform for inductively coupled plasma. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JCP.2015.01.027
Turkoz, Emre, and Celik, Murat. 2015. "AETHER: A simulation platform for inductively coupled plasma". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JCP.2015.01.027.
@article{osti_22465615,
title = {AETHER: A simulation platform for inductively coupled plasma},
author = {Turkoz, Emre and Celik, Murat},
abstractNote = {An in-house code is developed to simulate the inductively coupled plasma (ICP). The model comprises the fluid, electromagnetic and transformer submodels. Fluid equations are solved to evaluate the plasma flow parameters, including the plasma and neutral densities, ion and neutral velocities, electron flux, electron temperature, and electric potential. The model relies on the ambipolar approximation and offers the evaluation of plasma parameters without solving the sheath region. The electromagnetic model handles the calculation of the electric and magnetic fields using the magnetic vector potential. The transformer model captures the effect of the matching circuit utilized in laboratory experiments for RF power deposition. The continuity and momentum equations are solved using finite volume method. The energy, electric potential, and magnetic vector potential equations are solved using finite difference method. The resulting linear systems of equations are solved with iterative solvers including Jacobi and GMRES. The code is written using the C++ programming language, it works in parallel and has graphical user interface. The model is applied to study ICP characteristics of a plasma confined within a cylindrical chamber with dielectric walls for two different power deposition cases. The results obtained from the developed model are verified using the plasma module of COMSOL Multiphysics. The model is also applied to a plasma source configuration, and it is demonstrated that there is an overall increase in the plasma potential when current is extracted from ICP with a biased wall electrode.},
doi = {10.1016/J.JCP.2015.01.027},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22465615}, journal = {Journal of Computational Physics},
issn = {0021-9991},
number = ,
volume = 286,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}