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A fully-implicit Particle-In-Cell Monte Carlo Collision code for the simulation of inductively coupled plasmas

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Mattei, S., Nishida, K., Onai, M., Lettry, J., Tran, M.Q., Hatayama, A.·2017·Journal of Computational Physics
DOI 10.1016/j.jcp.2017.09.015
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We present a fully-implicit electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell Monte Carlo collision code, called NINJA, written for the simulation of inductively coupled plasmas. NINJA employs a kinetic enslaved Jacobian-Free Newton Krylov method to solve self-consistently the interaction between the electromagnetic field generated by the radio-frequency coil and the plasma response. The simulated plasma includes a kinetic description of charged and neutral species as well as the collision processes between them. The algorithm allows simulations with cell sizes much larger than the Debye length and time steps in excess of the Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition whilst preserving the conservation of the total energy. The code is applied to the simulation of the plasma discharge of the Linac4 H− ion source at CERN. Simulation results of plasma density, temperature and EEDF are discussed and compared with optical emission spectroscopy measurements. A systematic study of the energy conservation as a function of the numerical parameters is presented.

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Authors
Mattei, S., Nishida, K., Onai, M., Lettry, J., Tran, M. Q., & Hatayama, A.
Affiliations
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
  • Keio University (JP)
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research (CH)
Corresponding author
Mattei, S.
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Computational Physics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-12
Volume
350
Pages
891-906
ISSN
0021-9991 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jcp.2017.09.015
OpenAlex
W2755551903
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61
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1.36
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Journal of Computational Physics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15H04232)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Low-Pressure Plasma Processing and Diagnostics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Magnetic confinement fusion research
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Vacuum and Plasma Arcs
Keywords
inductively coupled plasma, particle-in-cell Monte Carlo collision, Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov method, kinetic plasma simulation, energy conservation (physics), radiofrequency coils, electron energy distribution, optical emission spectroscopy, Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition

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