Immersed Finite Element Particle-In-Cell Modeling of Surface Charging in Rarefied Plasmas
Surface charging is a fundamental interaction process in space plasma engineering. A three-dimensional Immersed Finite Element Particle-In-Cell (IFE-PIC) method is developed to model surface charging involving complex boundary conditions. This method extends the previous IFE-PIC algorithm to explici...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37368 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02152010-173137/ |