Development of PIFE-PIC: A 3-D Parallel Immersed Finite Element Particle-in-Cell Code for Plasma Simulations

In this talk, we will report development progresses of PIFE-PIC, a 3-D Parallel Immersed Finite Element Particle-in-Cell code for particle simulations of plasmas 1 . This code is based on a recently developed non-homogeneous electrostatic IFE-PIC algorithm2, which is designed to handle complex plasm...

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Published in2018 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) p. 1
Main Authors Han, Daoru, He, Xiaoming
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 24.06.2018
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Finite element analysis
Geometry
Plasmas
Program processors
Solid modeling
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Summary:In this talk, we will report development progresses of PIFE-PIC, a 3-D Parallel Immersed Finite Element Particle-in-Cell code for particle simulations of plasmas 1 . This code is based on a recently developed non-homogeneous electrostatic IFE-PIC algorithm2, which is designed to handle complex plasma-material interface boundary conditions associated with irregular geometries using a Cartesian-mesh-based PIC. 3-D domain decomposition is used in both electric field-solve and particle-push to distribute the computation among multiple processors. A validation cases simulating the charging/sheath of a dielectric sphere immersed in a stationary plasma is carried out to demonstrate the capability of code. Timing benchmark and parallel efficiency will be investigated and discussed.
ISSN:2576-7208
DOI:10.1109/ICOPS35962.2018.9576039