Plasma capabilities in ANSYS

- March 28, 2018 at 4:54 pm
  
  wbmckinney
  Subscriber
  
  I was wondering if ANSYS is capable of modeling low-temperature plasma? If so, what modules or solvers would be used? Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts.
- March 29, 2018 at 12:00 am
  
  pgl
  Ansys Employee
  
  It depends on the pressure regime, are you talking continuous or molecular flow vacuum/pressure levels?
  
  For continuous flow, ANSYS Fluent is a good choice. There are quite a few papers/article in the public domain where ANSYS Fluent is used to model plasma arcs. Most of these are high temperature plasma in that they have welding applications. Example.
  
  At the other extreme, these folks used our simulation tools to model a plasma contained within the W7-X cryostat plasma vessel (PV). There's a paper published here by Elsevier. I'm not sure what blend of solvers they used, but either ANSYS Maxwell or legacy ANSYS Emag can be used to model charged particle traces. Some users have also simulated high vacuum by using a thermal solution analogy.
  
  W7-X cryostat system are the plasma vessel (PV),
- April 1, 2018 at 8:17 pm
  
  Raef.Kobeissi
  Subscriber
  
  That looks awesome! The paper is definitely worth an in-depth read! Thanks for sharing
- April 1, 2018 at 11:53 pm
  
  wbmckinney
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you for the reply. However, I do not believe these are applicable to my situation as I am trying to model low-temperature atmospheric plasma via dielectric barrier discharge through a tube.
- December 28, 2018 at 5:39 am
  
  Mostafa
  Subscriber
  
  Can i use Ansys Chemkin in DBD plasma Simulation?
- December 28, 2018 at 5:41 am
  
  Mostafa
  Subscriber
  
  Can i use Ansys Chemkin in DBD plasma Simulation?
- October 19, 2022 at 1:52 pm
  
  Naman Tibrewal
  Subscriber
  
  What module of ANSYS fluent will be used to simulate plasma impulse bits in space from propulsion thrusters? Please respond as soon as you can

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