All JC-PIC Test Cases

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• Abstract
• Introduction
• Basic-Plasma Physics
  • Plasma Sheath - Plasma Potential
    • Uniform Collisionless Plasma Source
    • Limited Collisionless Plasma Source
    • Influence of Collisions
  • Sheath in an Oblique Magnetic Field
    • Case 1: reference, B at 30°
    • Case 2: B at 60°
    • Case 3: grazing, B at 5°
    • Case 4: cold ions, 30°
    • Case 5: low density, 30°
  • Collisional Plasma Diffusion
    • Ambipolar Diffusion
  • Langmuir Waves
    • Bohm-Gross Wave
    • Non-linear Electron Wave
  • Ion Acoustic Waves
    • Generation of Ion Acoustic Waves
    • Wave Breaking
  • Plasma Expansion
    • Plasma Expansion in Vacuum
    • Influence of Collisions
  • PIC-MCC and Global Model
    • Global Model
• Swarm Physics
  • Collisions and Cross Sections
    • Case 1 - What a cross section is
    • Case 2 - Mean free path and collision frequency
    • Case 3 - The null-collision method
    • Case 4 - The time between two collisions
    • Case 5 - What one collision does
    • Case 6 - Rate coefficients and the energy cost
    • Case 7 - Free exploration
  • Calculation of Swarm Parameters
    • Swarm Parameters in Neon
    • Comparisons with MCIG
  • Swarm Experiments
    • Pulsed Townsend Experiment
    • Steady-State Townsend Experiment
    • Franck-Hertz experiment
• Electron Emission from Cathode
  • Vacuum Diode
    • Child Langmuir
    • Thermionic Emission
    • Thermionic Emission Test Case
    • Virtual Cathode Oscillations
  • Thermionic Discharge
    • Temperature Limited Current (TLM)
    • TLM with Beam-Plasma Instability
    • Anode Glow Mode (AGM)
    • AGM Self-Oscillations
• DC and Transient Glow Discharges
  • DC Glow Discharge
    • Helium Glow Discharge
    • GD Benchmark
  • Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation
    • Supersonic PIII
    • Subsonic PIII
• RF Capacitive Discharges
  • Benchmarks - Turner et al.
    • Case 1 - He 30 mTorr 450 V
    • Case 2 - He 100 mTorr 200 V
    • Case 3 - He 300 mTorr 150 V
    • Case 4 - He 1 Torr 120 V
    • Case 2 - Current driven 10 A/m2
    • JC-PIC vs Benchmark
  • EduPIC - Donko et al.
    • Argon 10 Pa 250 V 13.56 MHz
    • Sensitivity/Accuracy
  • Pressure Effect - Godyak
    • Ar 10 mTorr 10 A/m2
    • Ar 100 mTorr 10 A/m2
    • He 30 mTorr 10 A/m2
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  • Dual frequency
    • Phaseshift 90°
    • Phaseshift 60°
    • Phaseshift 45°
    • Phaseshift 0°
  • Power absorption
    • Case 1 50 Pa
    • Case 2 20 Pa
    • Case 3 5 Pa
    • Case 4 1 Pa
  • Frequency effects
    • Case 1: 100 V, 27.12 MHz
    • Case 2: 100 V, 40 MHz
    • Case 3: 100 V, 70 MHz
    • Case 4: 50 V, 27.12 MHz
    • Case 5: 150 V, 27.12 MHz
    • Case 6: 50 V, 45 MHz
    • Case 7: 50 V, 50 MHz
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  • Magnetized RF
    • Case 1 - Yang 0-100 G
    • Case 2 - Yang 10-100 G
    • Case 3 - Yang 50-100 G
    • Case 4 - Sharma B=35 G
• Positive Column
  • Striations & Ionization Waves
    • DC Periodic
    • RF bounded
  • Positive Column in a Slab
    • Case 1 - Ar 100 mTorr
    • Case 2 - Ar 1.2 mTorr
  • Hall Effect (transverse B field)
    • Case 1 - B=0
    • Case 2 - B=50 G
    • Case 3 - B=100 G
    • Case 4- B=150 G
• Magnetized Plasmas
  • Hall Thruster - ExB Instability
    • Case 0: quick look, argon
    • Case 1: 20 kV/m (reference)
    • Case 2: 10 kV/m
    • Case 3: 40 kV/m (diverged)
    • Case 3b: 40 kV/m, fine dt (diverged too)
    • Case 4: n = 5e16 m-3
    • Case 5: n = 2e17 m-3
  • Hall Effect in Positive Column
    • Case 1 - B=0
    • Case 2 - B=50 G
    • Case 3 - B=100 G
    • Case 4- B=150 G
  • Magnetized RF Discharge
    • Case 1 - Yang 0-100 G
    • Case 2 - Yang 10-100 G
    • Case 3 - Yang 50-100 G
    • Case 4 - Sharma B=35 G
  • Sheath in an Oblique Magnetic Field (Chodura)
    • Case 1: reference, B at 30°
    • Case 2: B at 60°
    • Case 3: grazing, B at 5°
    • Case 4: cold ions, 30°
    • Case 5: low density, 30°
• Plasma Instabilities
  • Two-stream Instability
    • Beam Plasma Instability (periodic)
    • Beam Plasma Instability bounded
    • Buneman Instability
    • Symmetric Two-Stream
  • Sheath Oscillations
    • Virtual Cathode Oscillations
    • Anode Glow Mode
  • Positive Column Striations
    • DC Periodic
    • RF bounded
  • ECDI - Hall Thrusters
    • Case 0: quick look, argon
    • Case 1: 20 kV/m (reference)
    • Case 2: 10 kV/m
    • Case 3: 40 kV/m (diverged)
    • Case 3b: 40 kV/m, fine dt (diverged too)
    • Case 4: n = 5e16 m-3
    • Case 5: n = 2e17 m-3
• Appendix
  • Basic Concepts and Definitions
    • Lengths - Debye shielding
    • Frequencies - plasma, cyclotron, collision
    • Velocities, temperatures and distributions
    • From physical scales to numerical ones
  • Single-Particle Motion
    • Case 1 - Gyration in a uniform field
    • Case 2 - The E x B drift
    • Case 3 - Electric field along B
    • Case 4 - Oblique field, the Chodura geometry
    • Case 5 - Drift in a gradient of B
    • Case 6 - The magnetic mirror
    • Case 7 - Collisions across B
    • Case 8 - Free exploration
  • Collisions and Cross Sections
    • Case 1 - What a cross section is
    • Case 2 - Mean free path and collision frequency
    • Case 3 - The null-collision method
    • Case 4 - The time between two collisions
    • Case 5 - What one collision does
    • Case 6 - Rate coefficients and the energy cost
    • Case 7 - Free exploration