Article
PIFE-PIC: A 3-D Parallel Immersed Finite Element Particle-in-Cell Framework for Plasma Simulations
Proceedings of the 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA SciTech Forum, (2018, Kissimmee, FL)
Abstract
This paper presents a recently developed particle simulation framework, PIFE-PIC, a 3-D Parallel Immersed Finite Element (IFE) Particle-in-Cell (PIC) model for particle simulations of plasmas. This framework applies the recently developed non-homogeneous electrostatic IFE-PIC algorithm, which is designed to handle complex plasma-material interface boundary conditions associated with irregular geometries using a Cartesian-meshbased PIC. 3-D domain decomposition is used in both electric field-solve and particle-push to distribute the computation among multiple processors. A validation case simulating the sheath of a dielectric sphere immersed in a stationary plasma is carried out to demonstrate the capability of the code.
Meeting Name
2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA SciTech Forum, (2018: Jan. 8-12, Kissimmee, FL)
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Second Research Center/Lab
Intelligent Systems Center
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
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Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2018 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-12-2018
Publication Date
12 Jan 2018
Disciplines
Citation Information
Daoru Frank Han, Xiaoming He and Joseph J. Wang. "PIFE-PIC: A 3-D Parallel Immersed Finite Element Particle-in-Cell Framework for Plasma Simulations" Proceedings of the 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA SciTech Forum, (2018, Kissimmee, FL) (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/xiaoming-he/48/