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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Pu
Other Authors: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Format: Others
Published: 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/