Modeling Plume Plasma Interactions with Spacecraft Surfaces using Hybrid CPU-GPU Strategies
Deborah Levin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Revathi Jambunathan, Deborah Levin, Saurabh Sawant, Nakul Nuwal, Arman Tekinalp, Siddharth Budaraju, Victor AzevedoOur goal this year is to build on this exciting development by including dielectric surface charging in the self consistent kinetic model with a semi-kinetic approach which is more accurate in modeling electrons than traditional electron models such as Boltzmann and Polytropic but computationally less expensive than a fully kinetic PIC DSMC approach.