Any thoughts on the best approach or framework to adopt here? also what is the best computational environment to use for this modelling task, ANSYS or COMSOL?
Dear Darren F. Kavanagh
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.
At the other extreme, these folks used ANSYS 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. Comsol Multi-physics use a huge number of linearization and in few cases, the results are not reliable.
there is a paper with title of :
[Finite element analysis of the surface temperature distribution on exoatmospheric ballistic target] which in this paper The temperature fields of a kind of exoatmospheric ballistic target were calculated by ANSYS.
in low temperature researches there are few papers but a paper with title of :
[Correlation between helium mole fraction and plasma bullet propagation in low temperature plasma jets] do more research on low temperature plasma but
they don't use any software and use traditional CFD Approach.
by the way, I suggest you to use ANSYS package.
Best regards
Ahmad
Thanks this is very helpful. I just noticed more ref. examples and materials on Comsol online e.g. https://www.comsol.com/models/plasma-module
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