Plasma sphere interaction - vonkarmaninstitute/pantera-pic-dsmc GitHub Wiki

Introduction

This tutorial case is intended to show the user how to the setup a plasma simulation with fluid electrons and particle ions. This also includes the computation of the drag forces on any solid body using boundary analysis which is caused from the direct collision of plasma particles and electrostatic interaction between the plasma and the solid body.

This case is inspired by the original experiment on charged drag from E. D. Knechtel and W. C. Pitts, 1964 and from a simulation comparison by C. Capon et al., 2019. The aim is to reproduce such results by building the Pantera simulation step by step.