The 2022 Plasma Roadmap: low temperature plasma science and technology

I Adamovich, S Agarwal, E Ahedo… - Journal of Physics D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The 2022 Roadmap is the next update in the series of Plasma Roadmaps published by
Journal of Physics D with the intent to identify important outstanding challenges in the field of …

Dynamic mode decomposition for data-driven analysis and reduced-order modeling of E× B plasmas: I. Extraction of spatiotemporally coherent patterns

F Faraji, M Reza, A Knoll, JN Kutz - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The advent of data-driven/machine-learning based methods and the increase in data
available from high-fidelity simulations and experiments has opened new pathways toward …

An energy-and charge-conserving electrostatic implicit particle-in-cell algorithm for simulations of collisional bounded plasmas

D Eremin - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work investigates the applicability of the implicit energy-and charge-conserving
particle-in-cell method to collisional bounded plasmas. The possible modifications might …

[HTML][HTML] Parametric investigation of azimuthal instabilities and electron transport in a radial-azimuthal E× B plasma configuration

M Reza, F Faraji, A Knoll - Journal of Applied Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Partially magnetized low-temperature plasmas (LTP) in an E× B configuration, where the
applied magnetic field is perpendicular to the self-consistent electric field, have become …

Reduced-order particle-in-cell simulations of a high-power magnetically shielded Hall thruster

M Reza, F Faraji, A Knoll, A Piragino… - Plasma Sources …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High-power magnetically shielded Hall thrusters have emerged in recent years to meet the
needs of the next-generation on-orbit servicing and exploration missions. Even though a few …

Plasma propulsion modeling with particle-based algorithms

F Taccogna, F Cichocki, D Eremin, G Fubiani… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This Perspective paper deals with an overview of particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision
models applied to different plasma-propulsion configurations and scenarios, from …

3D particle-in-cell study of the electron drift instability in a Hall Thruster using unstructured grids

W Villafana, B Cuenot, O Vermorel - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In a Hall Thruster, the E× B current generates a strong electron drift with respect to the ions,
which can trigger plasma instabilities, such as the electron drift instability (EDI), also called …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of the applied fields' strength on the plasma behavior and processes in E× B plasma discharges of various propellants: I. Electric field

M Reza, F Faraji, A Knoll - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present an extensive study into the influences that the magnitudes of the applied electric
(⁠ E⁠) and magnetic (⁠ B⁠) fields have on collisionless plasma discharges of xenon …

Dynamic mode decomposition for data-driven analysis and reduced-order modeling of E× B plasmas: II. Dynamics forecasting

F Faraji, M Reza, A Knoll, JN Kutz - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In part I of the article, we demonstrated that a variant of the dynamic mode decomposition
(DMD) algorithm based on variable projection optimization, called optimized DMD (OPT …

[HTML][HTML] Verification of the generalized reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme in a radial–azimuthal E× B plasma configuration

F Faraji, M Reza, A Knoll - AIP Advances, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this article, we present an in-depth verification of the generalized electrostatic reduced-
order particle-in-cell (PIC) scheme in a cross electric and magnetic field configuration …