The LisbOn KInetics (LoKI) Suite

Members

The Plasma Modelling and Simulation team of group N-Plasmas Reactive: Modelling and Engineering (N-PRiME) with the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear of Instituto Superior Técnico 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), while developing the LisbOn KInetics (LoKI) Suite.

The tool suite is also developed as part of a fruitful collaboration with the Departamento de Física of Facultad de Ciencias with Universidad de Córdoba (regarding LoKI-GM) and the group Elementary Processes in Gas Discharges, EPG of the Eindhoven University of Technology (regarding LoKI-B and LoKI-MC).

Project leader

Luís Lemos Alves Luís Lemos ALVES, Full Professor, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
His field of work is the modelling and simulation of low-temperature plasmas. 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. He is the PI of the LisbOn KInetics (LoKI) Suite. His research focuses on the study of microwave and radio-frequency discharges, of interest for material science, biological and environmental applications. Recently, he has been devoted to the modelling of N2-H2 plasmas for ammonia synthesis.

Main developer

Antonio Tejero Antonio TEJERO, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Córdoba, Spain
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 Global Model (LoKI-GM), including the Boltzmann solver component (LoKI-B), the Chemistry solver component (LoKI-C) and their integration.

N-PRiME team members

Vasco Guerra Vasco GUERRA, Full Professor, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
His research interests are focused on the modelling and simulation of non-equilibrium kinetic processes in molecular plasmas, including electron, heavy-particle and surface kinetics.
Carlos_Pintassilgo Carlos Daniel Pintassilgo, Professor, IPFN/IST, Lisbon and FEUP, Porto
His main research interests involve the modelling of non-equilibrium molecular plasmas, such as N2, N2-O2 and N2-CH4, comprising the coupling between electron, vibration and chemical kinetics, and the self-consistent analysis of gas/plasma heating.
Nuno Pinhao Nuno Pinhão, Researcher, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
His main research interests involve the physics of gas discharges, the numerical modeling of low temperature plasmas, and the application of dielectric barrier discharges for pollution control. He is in charge of developing and maintaining the HDF5 support and the HTML documentation for LoKI-GM.
Mário Lino da Silva Mário Lino da Silva, Professor, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He is the head of the Hypersonic Plasma Laboratory, hosting the 1M€ European Shock Tube for High Enthalpy Research (ESTHER), commissioned in July 2019. He is a leading researcher in non-equilibrium plasma radiation phenomena, including modelling vibration relaxation processes. He is consistently developing theoretical models based on the Forced Harmonic Oscillator Theory, and he is the author of efficient models for fast calculations of line-by-line spectra, including millions of lines from the VUV to the IR range.
Tiago Silva Tiago SILVA, Researcher, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He holds a PhD in Physics by the University of Mons (Belgium). His research focuses on the modelling of non-equilibrium reactive plasmas and on experimental studies of plasma-based environmental applications, particularly for gas reforming processes. He is involved in the validation of KInetic Test schemes (KIT).
Pedro Viegas Pedro VIEGAS, Researcher, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He holds a PhD in Physics by l'Université Paris-Saclay (France). His research interests include plasma fluid modelling, plasma global modelling, plasma jets, streamer physics, microwave discharges, plasmas for CO2 conversion and energy research, discharge radial contraction mechanisms, atomic oxygen radiation, vibrational kinetics, Fokker-Planck method, plasma-surface interactions, plasma-electrolysis synergies.
Pedro Pereira Pedro PEREIRA, Research Engineer, IPFN/IST, Lisbon
He is a researcher of IPFN. He holds a MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST, University of Lisbon, having completed his master's thesis on the subject of Transfer Learning Methods for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis. He is involved in tasks related with the development of LoKI-GM, LoKI utilities, ML algorithms, and the curation of data.

EPG-TU/e and PlasmaMatters collaborators

Jan van Dijk Jan van DIJK, Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jan got his PhD degree in plasma physics at Eindhoven University of Technology. His primary field of interest is the self-consistent modelling and numerical simulation of plasma sources. He is also interested in the 'peripherals' of this work, such as the reliable dissemination of input and output data, high-performance computing and software design. He usually speaks C++.
Tiago Dias Tiago DIAS, Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
He holds a PhD in Physics by the University of Lisbon (Portugal). He has developed a Kinetic Monte Carlo for plasma chemistry and a Monte-Carlo version of the LisbOn Kinetics Boltzmann solver (LoKI-MC).
Daan Boer Daan BOER, PhD student, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Currently pursuing a PhD degree in Physics. Interested in numerical plasma physics and applications where Physics meets Data Science. He is responsible for the transcription of LoKI-B from MATLAB to C++.
Diana Mihailova Diana MIHAILOVA, Plasma Matters B.V., The Netherlands
She is the CEO and the founder of Plasma Matters B.V. She holds a PhD in plasma physics from the Eindhoven University of Technology. She has a background in numerical plasma physics, in particular modeling of low-temperature plasmas for various applications such as plasmas for surface treatment and material processing, biomedical and environmental technologies.
Wouter Graef Wouter GRAEF, Plasma Matters B.V., The Netherlands
He is the CTO of Plasma Matters B.V. He holds a PhD in plasma physics from the Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands), during which he focused on zero-dimensional models for plasma chemistry. He is one of the main developers of the plasma simulation framework PLASIMO and is the coordinator of the tech team of the LXCat project.