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Motivated by the task to design quench protection systems for superconducting magnets in particle accelerators we address a coupled field/circuit simulation based on a magneto-quasistatic field modeling. We investigate how a waveform…
The self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) mechanism, the fundamental operating principle of numerous free-electron laser (FEL) facilities, is driven by electron beam shot noise and leads to significant fluctuations in the output pulse…
We present a new multi-fluid, multi-temperature plasma solver with adaptive Cartesian mesh (ACM) based on a full-Newton (non-linear, implicit) scheme for collisional low-temperature plasma. The particle transport is described using the…
Analytical models for common envelope evolution (CEE), particularly the energy formalism, are used in binary population synthesis to predict post-CEE configurations. This formalism is based on an efficiency parameter alpha, which relates…
We present results from a fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation of direct current magnetron sputtering (dcMS) in a 2D cylindrically symmetric geometry. The particle-in-cell model assumes an electrostatic approximation and includes…
In this paper, the electrical characteristics of the Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) reference cell with impedance matching are investigated through a two-dimensional electrostatic implicit Particle-in-Cell/Monte Carlo Collision…
Aims. The simulation of three-wave interaction based plasma emission, thought to be the underlying mechanism for Type III solar radio bursts, is a challenging task requiring fully-kinetic, multi-dimensional models. This paper aims to…
Accurate representation of interfaces and flux exchange is vital for coupled multiphysics simulations across a broad range of applications. Currently, coupling approaches are limited by the underlying discretization or to specific physical…
Separate spin evolution-quantum hydrodynamic (SSE-QHD) model is employed to address the nonlinear propagation of ion-acoustic wave (IAW) and spin electron-acoustic wave (SEAW) in a spin polarized electron-ion plasma. The analysis has been…
Two-beam coupling within the field of nonlinear optics, which transfers energy from one light beam to the other under certain conditions, has received considerable attention in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and plasma optics. To…
The discharge structure of inductively coupled plasma is studied via fluid simulation and analytic theory collaboration. At low pressure, the discharge is stratified by the double layer, which is modelled as dipole moment. The parabolic…
We extend the simplex-in-cell (SIC) technique recently introduced in the context of collisionless dark matter fluids (Abel et al. 2012; Hahn et al. 2012) to the case of collisionless plasmas. The six-dimensional phase space distribution…
Surface integral equation (SIE) methods are of great interest for the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations in the presence of homogeneous objects. However, existing SIE algorithms have limitations, either in terms of scalability,…
We present the method of the self-consistent calculation of thermodynamical and correlation functions. This approach is based on the GRPA (generalized random phase approximation) scheme with the inclusion of the mean field corrections.…
In most PIC/MCC simulations of radio frequency capacitively coupled plasmas (CCPs) several simplifications are made: (i) fast neutrals are not traced, (ii) heavy particle induced excitation and ionization are neglected, (iii) secondary…
Free-electron lasers (FELs) operate at wavelengths down to hard x-rays, and are either seeded or start from noise. There is increasing interest in x-ray FELs that rely on Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission (SASE), and this involves…
The particle-in-cell (PIC) method has been widely used for plasma simulation, because of its noise-reduction capability and moderate computational cost. The immersed finite element (IFE) method is efficient for solving interface problems on…
Secondary electron emission (SEE) from inner linings of plasma chambers in electric thrusters for space propulsion can have a disruptive effect on device performance and efficiency. SEE is typically calculated using elastic and inelastic…
Continuum solvation methods can provide an accurate and inexpensive embedding of quantum simulations in liquid or complex dielectric environments. Notwithstanding a long history and manifold applications to isolated systems in open boundary…
Previous models of the quantum regime of operation of the Free Electron Laser (QFEL) have performed an averaging and the application of periodic boundary conditions to the coupled Maxwell - Schrodinger equations over short, resonant…