Multiscale Plasma Modeling

The goal of this project is to provide a framework for adaptive finite volume simulations, with a focus on simplicity and adaptive grid refinement.

The framework should:

• Provide all the basic grid functionality for finite volume simulations with adaptive mesh refinement.
• Be relatively easy to use.
• Be easy to modify.
• Efficiently make use of a multicore machine.
• Provide a FAS multigrid solver (v-cycle and fmg) with point relaxation.
• Provide routines for generating output that can be visualized with Visit.

The project's code can be found at Github, and it includes a couple of examples that can help you get started.

A short guide (very much work in progress) can be found is available here.

A 2D/3D (Cartesian) plasma fluid model has been implemented, see this Github page. The fluid model is of the convectoin-diffusion-reaction type, uses the local field approximation and includes photoionization.