Particle-in-cellcharged-particlesimulations,plusMonteCarlocollisionswithneutralatoms,PIC-M.pdfVIP

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE, VOL. 19, NO. 2, APRIL 1991 Particle-in-Cell Charged-Particle Simulations, Plus Monte Carlo Collisions With Neutral Atoms, PIC-MCC C .K. Birdsall, Life Fellow, IEEE (Invited Paper) Abstract- Many-particle (meaning 1000s) charged-particle plasma assisted materials processing, but also related to warmer plasmas simulations using spatial meshes for the electromagnetic field solutions, at the edges of magnetized fusion plasmas. particle-in-cell (PIC) merged with Monte Carlo collision (MCC) Collisionless many-particle plasma simulation is rich in history calculations, are coming into wide use for application to partially ionized gases. This paper emphasizes the development of PIC computer and may rate as one of the success stories in physics and experiments since the 1950s starting with one-dimensional (I-D) charged- engineering using the modern digital computer, along with such sheet models, the addition of the mesh, and fast direct Poisson equation advances as numerical wind tunnels and space craft control and solvers for 2-D and 3-D. The finite-size particle-in-mesh (finite AX,At) communications-both complementing theory and experiment theory of Langdon [51]-[53] is presented in part to display the effects of and, in some cases, being the main ingredient. This richness too small A D / A x ,even for Maxwellian velocity distributions, as a caution, for example, when some ions are cooled to background gas temperatures extends also to the breadth of methods, making it difficul