The progress of 3-dimensional particle-in-cell code CHIPIC

The capacity and progress of 3-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) code CHIPIC, which is based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, is reviewed. CHIPIC has been developed for more than one decade, starting from simulating vacuum devices. During the last decade of development, the funct...

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Published in2017 Eighteenth International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC) pp. 1 - 2
Main Authors Wang Huihui, Liu Dagang, Liu Laqun, Meng Lin
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.04.2017
Subjects
CHIPIC
Computational modeling
Electric breakdown
Mathematical model
Monte Carlo collision
Numerical models
Optimization
parallel computation
particle-in-cell
Plasmas
Time-domain analysis
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Summary:The capacity and progress of 3-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) code CHIPIC, which is based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, is reviewed. CHIPIC has been developed for more than one decade, starting from simulating vacuum devices. During the last decade of development, the functionality of CHIPIC is extended from 2-dimension to 3-dimension, from text interface to graphical interface, from serial computation to parallel computation, from simple boundary condition to multiple boundary conditions, and from electron-only PIC simulations of vacuum devices to complex plasma particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision (PIC/MCC) simulations of various devices.
DOI:10.1109/IVEC.2017.8289551