Fields Institute Workshop on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics

Carleton University, August 19-22, 2013


German Kalugin

Canadian Space Weather Forecast Center (NRCan)

Some Models in Computational Plasma Dynamics

Many methods of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) can be adapted and applied to solving various problems in plasma dynamics. This is because plasma flow often can be described by magnetohydrodynamic model. The talk briefly reviews some of such applications including modeling of plasma flow in a plasma accelerator and a study of stability of Hartmann flow with using Total Variation Diminishing scheme and Chebyshev tau method respectively. One more application is related to simulation of a vacuum ion diode where plasma is described by Maxwell-Vlasov equations solved by the Particle-In-Cell method. All the applications demonstrate that CFD methods provide very effective tools for investigating complex plasma behavior and allow to obtain new interesting results.