Simultaneous Potential and Circuit Solution for Two-Dimensional Bounded Plasma Simulation Codes

✍ Scribed by Vahid Vahedi; G. DiPeso

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 775 KB
• Volume: 131
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9991
• DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1996.5591

✦ Synopsis

Verboncoeur et al. [9] improved upon Lawson's method and showed how the external circuits can be solved simulta-An algorithm for coupling external circuit elements to be bounded two-dimensional electrostatic plasma simulation codes is develneously with the internal fields. The approach and equaoped. In general, the external circuit equations provide a mixture tions we use in this work for coupling to the external of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions for the Poisson equacircuits have their roots in the work of Verboncoeur et al. tion, which is solved each time step for the internal plasma potential.

[9], and we extend their work to two-dimensional simula-

We rewrite the coupling between the plasma and the external circuit tions. Even in electromagnetic codes, one has to account parameters as an algebraic or ordinary differential equation for the potential on the boundary. This scheme allows decomposition of