glowDischargeSolver
is a collection of python functions supporting
the approximation of plasma systems in "glow discharge" regime. The
model takes the form of a fluid model that uses the drift-diffusion
approximation so that the state variables consist of a set of species
number densities and an electron temperature. For more details on the
physical model, see the LaTeX documentation in the doc
directory.
These equations are discretized in space using Chebyshev collation and in time using fully implicit schemes, either backward Euler or Crank-Nicolson. Further, to support the time-periodic case, time-periodic-shooting is implemented to accelerate converged to the time-periodic solution.