Multiscale Plasma Modeling

All books listed here are available in the group, ask a colleague if you need them. The same goes for papers in journals that CWI is not subscribed to.

• Positive and negative streamers in ambient air: modelling evolution and velocities (Luque et al. 2008)
• A comparison of 3D particle, fluid, and hybrid simulations for negative streamers (Li et. al. 2012)
• Effective ionization rate in nitrogen-oxygen mixtures (Pancheshnyi 2013)
• Comparison of six simulation codes for positive streamers in air (Bagheri et al. 2018)

• Principles of Plasma Discharges and Materials Processing (Lieberman & Lichtenberg )
• Gas Discharge Physics (Raizer, note: some parts are outdated and some arguments are inconsistent)

• The theory of electron-molecule collisions (Lane, 1980)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_avalanche

• Introduction of Sander Nijdam's PhD thesis (focus on discharge experiments)
• Introduction of Casper Rutjes' PhD thesis (lightning questions, some modeling)
• Introduction of Jannis Teunissen's PhD thesis (electric discharge modeling)

• The physics of streamer discharge phenomena, 2020, Sander Nijdam, Jannis Teunissen and Ute Ebert doi (open access)
• On density models of streamers in 2012 by Alejandro Luque and Ute Ebert, https://homepages.cwi.nl/~ebert/JCP-Luque-12.pdf
• Streamers from a nonlinear dynamics perspective in 2011 by Ute Ebert et al. https://homepages.cwi.nl/~ebert/NonlinearityCover2011.pdf
• Streamer review with a perspective on lightning and sprite discharges in 2010 by Ute Ebert et al. https://homepages.cwi.nl/~ebert/JGRRev2010.pdf
• Streamer review for applied physicists in 2006 by Ute Ebert et al. https://homepages.cwi.nl/~ebert/psst6_2_s14.pdf

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning
• https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-science-scienceintro

• Introduction to scientific computing (M. Heath)
• Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (R. Leveque)

• Computer Simulation Using Particles (Hockney & Eastwood, 1988)
• Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation (Birdsall, Langdon)

• Foundations of modelling of nonequilibrium low-temperature plasmas (Alves et al. 2018)

• http://teunissen.net/wiki/doku.php?id=blog:fortran_programming (collection of links)

• https://help.github.com/articles/git-and-github-learning-resources/
• https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials
• https://git-scm.com/docs/gittutorial
• http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/ (short overview)
• http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/

• https://visitusers.org/index.php?title=Short_Tutorial

Note that chapters are sometimes improved until journal publication! Then please read the journal paper.

• Modeling heat dominated electrical breakdown (Ashutosh Agnihotri, 2018)
• Modeling high energy atmospheric physics and lightning inception (Casper Rutjes, 2018)
• Modeling of streamer discharges near dielectrics (Anna Dubinova, 2016)
• 3D simulations and analysis of pulsed discharges (Jannis Teunissen, 2015)
• High energy phenomena in laboratory and thunderstorm discharges (Christoph K“ohn, 2014)
• Modeling multiple time scales in streamer discharges (Aram Markosyan, 2014)
• Propagation mechanisms of positive streamers in different gases (Gideon Wormeester, 2013)
• Joining particle and fluid aspects in streamer simulations (Chao Li, 2009)
• Streamer branching: conformal mapping and regularization (Bernard Meulenbroek, 2006)
• An adaptive grid refinement strategy for the simulation of negative streamers (Carolynne Montijn, 2006)
• Spatio-temporal pattern formation in a semiconductor-gas-discharge system (Danijela Sijacic, 2004)

• Experiments on the physics of pulsed plasma jets (Marc van der Schans, 2018)
• Creeping-sparks: a study on surface discharge development (Anna Chvyreva, 2016)
• Experiments on streamer interaction with dielectric surfaces (Dirk Trienekens, 2016)
• Nanosecond-pulsed power technology for transient plasma generation (Tom Huiskamp, 2015)
• Understanding lightning: Experiments on meter long discharges and their X-rays (Pavlo Kochkin, 2014)
• Experimental study on hard radiation from long laboratory spark discharges in air (Vuong Nguyen, 2012)
• Experimental investigations on the physics of streamers (Sander Nijdam, 2011)
• Exploring streamer variability in experiments (Tanja Briels, 2007)
• Efficient streamer plasma generation (Hans Winands, 2007)

For more PhD theses from the TU/e go to their library and search for “PhD” and keywords such as “plasma”, “streamer”, “CO2” etc.