Publication: Implementation of a Monte Carlo method to a two-dimensional particle-in-cell solver using algebraic meshes
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2012
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Sengil, Nevsan; Tumuklu, Ozgur; Celenligil, Mehmed Cevdet
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INST NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY TECHNOLOGY
Abstract
Particle-in-cell (PIC) technique is a widely used computational method in the simulation of low density collisionless plasma flows. In this study, a new two-dimensional (2-D) electrostatic particle-in-cell solver is developed that can be applied to non-rectangular configurations.
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particle-in-cell (PIC); plasma flows; Monte Carlo (MC) method; coordinate transformation; Poisson's equation; Boltzmann relation, HEAT-CONDUCTION