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Timesaving techniques for decision of electron–molecule collisions in Monte Carlo simulation of electrical discharges
✍ Scribed by Hirotake Sugawara; Naoki Mori; Yosuke Sakai; Yoshiyuki Suda
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Volume
- 223
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9991
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✦ Synopsis
Techniques to reduce the computational load for determination of electron-molecule collisions in Monte Carlo simulations of electrical discharges have been presented. By enhancing the detection efficiency of the no-collision case in the decision scheme of the collisional events, we can decrease the frequency of access to time-consuming subroutines to calculate the electron collision cross sections of the gas molecules for obtaining the collision probability. A benchmark test and an estimation to evaluate the present techniques have shown a practical timesaving efficiency.