KIT-PLASMEBA

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Members

The Modelling and Simulation (M&S) team with the group N-Plasmas Reactive: Modelling and Engineering (N-PRiME) of Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN) assumes its "scientific heritage in the field of plasma kinetics of molecular plasmas as excellent basis for further development of plasma kinetics"; (IPFN’s External Advisory Panel report, 2013), putting forward project KIT-PLASMEBA. The project will act as a strategic seed for the future, enabling the systematic sharing of the team achievements on plasma kinetics, in a structured professional manner.

Main developers

Luís Lemos Alves Luís Lemos ALVES, PI, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
His field of work is the modelling and simulation of low-temperature plasmas. Over the years he has developed many different numerical codes, extending from the numerical solution of the electron Boltzmann equation to the development of multi-dimensional dynamic models for reactive gas/plasma systems. His research focuses on the study of microwave and radio-frequency discharges, of interest for material science, biological and environmental applications.
Antonio Tejero Antonio TEJERO, Post-Doctoral grant, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He holds a PhD in Materials and Energy, by the University of Córdoba (Spain), during which he has developed a parallelized PIC code (using GPGPU techniques under CUDA) for the contact of a low-temperature plasma with a Langmuir probe. He is responsible for the general development of the LisbOn KInetics (LoKI) numerical tool, including the Boltzmann solver component (LoKI-B), the Chemistry solver component (LoKI-C) and its integration.

Permanent Staff

Vasco Guerra Vasco GUERRA, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
His research interests are focused on the modelling and simulation of kinetic processes in molecular plasmas, including electron, heavy-particle and surface kinetics. He is in charge of defining the kinetic schemes for KIT-PLASMEBA.
Carlos_Pintassilgo Carlos Daniel Pintassilgo, IPFN/IST, Lisbon and FEUP, Porto
His main research interests involve electron and plasma chemistry kinetics in N2, N2-O2 and N2-CH4 plasmas. He is in charge of developing the thermal model for the gas/plasma system.
Luís Silvino Marques Luís Silvino Marques, IPFN/IST, Lisbon and DF-UMinho, Braga
He is in charge of the multi-species description of neutral transport.
Nuno Pinhao Nuno Pinhão, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
His main research interests involve modeling work on electron and chemical kinetics and experimental work on methane conversion, mainly at atmospheric pressure. He is in charge of the construction and maintenance of the web-access KIT platform.
Mário Lino da Silva Mário Lino da Silva, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He is the head of the Hypersonic Plasma Laboratory, hosting the European Shock Tube for High Enthalpy Research (ESTHER). He is in charge of documentation tasks and he collaborates in the maintenance of the web-access KIT platform.

Last grant holders

Tiago Silva Tiago SILVA, Post-Doctoral grant, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He holds a PhD in Physics by the University of Mons (Belgium). His research interests include the modeling and simulation of nonequilibrium plasmas, focusing mainly on the study of the vibrational kinetics. He is responsible for the general maintenance of the LisbOn KInetics (LoKI) numerical tool, as well as for the procedures related with the validation of the KInetic Test schemes (KIT).
Gonçalo Andrade Gonçalo ANDRADE, MSc student (BIC grant), IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He is responsible for implementing and validating the KIT for argon (Ar/Ar2), under LoKI-C, leveraging on the work previously developed.

Former grant holders

Duarte Gonçalves Duarte GONÇALVES, MSc (BIC grant), IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He has developed the non-linear module of LoKI-B, dealing with non-conservative collisions (e.g. ionizations leading to the production of secondary electrons) and electron-electron collisions. Later, he was currently responsible for implementing and validating the KIT for helium (He/He2) under LoKI-C, spanning high-pressure (work concluded) and low-pressure (work to be finalized) scenarios.
Duarte Nina Duarte NINA, MSc Engineering Physics, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He was responsible for the development of Dev_LoKI, a draft version of the Chemistry solver component (LoKI-C).
Samuel Jacob Samuel JACOB, MSc Engineering Physics (BI grant), IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He was responsible for implementing, under Dev_LoKI, a first proposal for the kinetics of nitrogen (N2/N).
Ana Silva Ana SILVA, MSc student (BIC grant), IPFN/IST, Lisbon
She was responsible for implementing a first version of the KIT for nitrogen (N2/N) and for oxygen (O2/O/O3), under LoKI-C. Later, she contributed to the KIT of argon (Ar/Ar2), under LoKI-C, by comparing various in-house kinetic schemes.
João Silva João SILVA, MSc student (BIC grant), IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He was responsible for updating the KIT for oxygen (O2), under LoKI-C, namely by including vibrational mechanisms involving excited states (O2(X,v)) and by validating the results obtained.

Project consultancy

Sergey Pancheshnyi Sergey Pancheshnyi, ABB Switzerland Ltd.
Principal Scientist and Project Manager
R&D projects on dielectric design of gaseous insulating systems for medium and high-voltage applications, dielectric aging of polymer materials, pulsed power applications.