Open AccessValidation of Numerical Two-Fluid and Kinetic Plasma Models
Author(s) -
D. C. Barnes
Publication year - 2011
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1010628
Subject(s) - oak ridge national laboratory , work (physics) , principal (computer security) , ridge , delta , library science , section (typography) , operations research , geography , mathematics , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , nuclear physics , cartography , aerospace engineering , operating system
This was a four year grant commencing October 1, 2003 and finishing September 30, 2007. The funding was primarily used to support the work of the Principal Investigator, who collaborated with Profs. Scott Parker and John Cary at U. Colorado, and with two students, N. Xiang and J. Cheng also of U. Colorado. The technical accomplishments of this grant can be found in the publications listed in the final Section here. The main accomplishments of the grant work were: (1) Development and implementation of time-implicit two-fluid simulation methods in collaboration with the NIMROD team; and (2) Development and testing of a new time-implicit delta-f, energy-conserving method The basic two-fluid method, with many improvements is used in present NIMROD calculations. The energy-conserving delta-f method is under continuing development under contract between Coronado Consulting, a New Mexico sole proprietorship and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory