"Computational Studies of Probes and Dust in Flow Plasma"
Event details
| Date | 24.10.2013 |
| Hour | 15:30 › 16:30 |
| Speaker | Prof. I. Hutchinson, MIT, Boston, USA |
| Location |
PPB 017
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Understanding the interaction of a flowing plasma with an absorbing object is a basic plasma topic of long-standing intrinsic interest; but also has important application to electric probes, dust-plasma dynamics, and the interaction of satellites with space plasmas. It has now become possible to solve the unavoidably multi-dimensional, particle-kinetic, non-linear problem computationally. Some examples of the new discoveries that have been made with specially-built Particle In Cell codes will be discussed. These include the understanding and calibration of Mach probes in tokamak edge plasmas, and the effects of plasma collisionality and ion distribution function on the wake and ion drag force of dust particles.
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Organizer
- Prof. P. Ricci
Contact
- Prof. P. Ricci