4. Features & Models
- 4.1. Particle Tracking
- 4.2. Field Solver - Poisson Equation
- 4.3. Boundary Conditions - Field Solver
- 4.4. Boundary Conditions - Particle Solver
- 4.5. Particle Initialization & Emission
- 4.6. Particle-In-Cell
- 4.7. Magnetic Background Field
- 4.8. Direct Simulation Monte Carlo
- 4.9. Background Gas
- 4.10. Unified Species Database
- 4.11. Fokker-Planck Collision Operator
- 4.12. Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook Collision Operator
- 4.13. Features of the Particle Solver
- 4.14. Radiation
The goal of PICLas is to enable to approximation of the complete Boltzmann equation:
\[ \frac{\partial f}{\partial t} + \mathbf{v}\cdot\frac{\partial f}{\partial \mathbf{x}} + \frac{\mathbf{F}}{m}\cdot\frac{\partial f}{\partial \mathbf{v}} = \left.\frac{\partial f}{\partial t}\right|_{\mathrm{coll}} \]