A boundary value "reservoir problem" and boundary conditions for multi-moment multifluid simulations of sheaths

Petr Cagas, Ammar H. Hakim, Bhuvana Srinivasan

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Abstract

Multifluid simulations of plasma sheaths are increasingly used to model a wide variety of problems in plasma physics ranging from global magnetospheric flows around celestial bodies to plasma-wall interactions in thrusters and fusion devices. For multifluid problems, accurate boundary conditions to model an absorbing wall that resolves a classical sheath remain an open research area. This work justifies the use of vacuum boundary conditions for absorbing walls to show comparable accuracy between a multifluid sheath and lower moments of a continuum-kinetic sheath.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number24510
JournalPhysics of Plasmas
Volume28
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Condensed Matter Physics

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