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Publications regarding the LoKI-Suite

Publications with information about the LisbOn KInetics (LoKI) Suite

LL Alves, A Tejero-Del-Caz, L Marques, P Pereira, N Pinhão, CD Pintassilgo, T Silva, P Viegas and V Guerra
LoKI-GM: a global model tool for plasma chemistry studies
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., 2026 (submitted)
arXiv

T C Dias, C D Pintassilgo and V Guerra
Effect of the magnetic field on the electron kinetics under AC/DC electric fields: benchmark calculations and electron cyclotron resonance
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 32 095003, 2023

L L Alves and A Tejero-del-Caz
Charged-particle transport models for global models
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 32 054003, 2023

T C Dias, A Tejero-del-Caz, L L Alves and V Guerra
The LisbOn KInetics Monte Carlo solver
Comput. Phys. Commun. 282 108554, 2023

A Tejero-del-Caz, V Guerra, N Pinhão, C D Pintassilgo and L L Alves
On the quasi-stationary approach to solve the electron Boltzmann equation in pulsed plasmas
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 30 065008, 2021

L Vialetto, A Ben Moussa, J van Dijk, S Longo, P Diomede, V Guerra and L L Alves
Effect of anisotropic scattering for rotational collisions on electron transport parameters in CO
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 30 075001, 2021

A Tejero-del-Caz, V Guerra, D Gonçalves, M Lino da Silva, L Marques, N Pinhão, C D Pintassilgo and L L Alves
The LisbOn KInetics Boltzmann solver
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 28 043001, 2019

P Coche, V Guerra and L L Alves
Microwave air plasmas in capillaries at low pressure I. Self-consistent modeling
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49 235207 1-22, 2016

V Guerra and J Loureiro
Self-consistent electron and heavy-particle kinetics in a low pressure N2-O2 glow discharge
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 6 373-385, 1997

S D Rockwood
Elastic and Inelastic Cross Sections for Electron-Hg Scattering from Hg Transport Data
Phys. Rev. A 8 2348, 1973

Recent examples of publications with simulations using the LisbOn KInetics (LoKI) Suite

S Baghel, L Marques and LL Alves
Cross sections for H2 and NH3 relevant to N2–H2 plasma modelling
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., 2026

J Afonso, V Guerra and P Viegas
Stochastic hierarchical data-driven optimization: application to plasma-surface kinetics
Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 7 025024, 2026

P Viegas, B Berdugo and V Guerra
Assessing the Role of Surface and Volume Processes for Atomic Oxygen Losses in CO2 Glow Discharges in Pyrex
Plasma Chem. Plasma Proc. 46 22, 2026

Y Liu, T Silva, T C Dias, P Viegas, X Zhao, Y Du, J He and V Guerra
An updated set of electron-impact cross sections for CO2: untangling dissociation and application to CO2 with Ar and N2 admixtures
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 34 035003, 2025

P Viegas, T C Dias and V Guerra
Role of volume and surface processes in the atomic oxygen loss frequency in oxygen glow discharges in Pyrex
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 34 085003, 2025

Y Liu, T Silva, T C Dias, P Viegas, X Zhao, Y Du, J He and V Guerra
Gas heating and plasma chemistry in low-pressure CO2 plasmas
J. CO2 Util. 97 103128, 2025

P Viegas, J Silveira, T C Dias, O Guaitella, A S Morillo-Candás and V Guerra
Surface recombination in Pyrex in oxygen DC glow discharges: mesoscopic modelling and comparison with experiments
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 32 055003, 2024

E Baratte, C A Garcia-Soto, T Silva, V Guerra, V I Parvulescu and O Guaitella
CO2/CH4 Glow Discharge Plasma: Part I - Experimental and Numerical Study of the Reaction Pathways
Plasma Chem. Plasma Process. 44 1237, 2024

T Silva, S Bera, C D Pintassilgo, A Herrmann, S Welzel, M N Tsampas, M C M van de Sanden, L L Alves and V Guerra
Unraveling NO Production in N2-O2 Plasmas with 0D Kinetic Modeling and Experimental Validation
J. Phys. Chem. A 128 7235-7256, 2024

T C Dias, C Fromentin, L L Alves, A T del Caz, T Silva and V Guerra
A reaction mechanism for oxygen plasmas
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 32 084003, 2023

C Fromentin, T Silva, T C Dias, E Baratte, O Guaitella and V Guerra
Validation of nonequilibrium kinetics in CO2-N2 plasmas
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 32 054004, 2023

C Fromentin, T Silva, T C Dias, A S Morillo-Candas, O Biondo, O Guaitella and V Guerra
Study of vibrational kinetics of CO2 and CO in CO2-O2 plasmas under non-equilibrium conditions
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 32 024001, 2023

P Viegas, T C Dias, C Fromentin, A Chukalovsky, Y Mankelevich, O Proshina, T Rakhimova, V Guerra and D Voloshin
Comparison between 1D radial and 0D global models for lowpressure oxygen DC glow discharges
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 32 024002, 2023

M Budde, T C Dias, L Vialetto, N Pinhão, V Guerra and T Silva
Electron-neutral collision cross sections for H2O: II. Anisotropic scattering and assessment of the validity of the two-term approximation
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 56 255201, 2023

J Tennyson, S Mohr, M Hanicinec, A Dzarasova, C Smith, S Waddington, B Liu, L L Alves et al.
The 2021 release of the Quantemol database (QDB) of plasma chemistries and reactions
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 31 095020, 2022

M Budde, T C Dias, L Vialetto, N Pinhão, V Guerra and T Silva
Electron-neutral collision cross sections for H2O: I. Complete and consistent set
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 55 445205, 2022

O Biondo, C Fromentin, T Silva, V Guerra, G van Rooij and A Bogaerts
Insights into the limitations to vibrational excitation of CO2: validation of a kinetic model with pulsed glow discharge experiments
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 31 074003, 2022

V Laporta, L Vialetto and V Guerra
Vibrational excitation cross sections for non-equilibrium nitric oxide-containing plasma
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 31 054001, 2022

V Guerra, T Silva, N Pinhão, O Guaitella, C Guerra-Garcia, F J J Peeters, M N Tsampas and M C M van de Sanden
Plasmas for in situ resource utilization on Mars: Fuels, life support, and agriculture
J. App. Phys. 132 070902, 2022

T Silva, A S Morillo-Candas, O Guaitella and V Guerra
Modeling the time evolution of the dissociation fraction in low-pressure CO2 plasmas
Journal of CO2 Utilization 53 101719, 2021

Y He, P Preissing, D Steuer, M Klich, V Schulz-von der Gathen, M Boke, I Korolov, J Schulze, V Guerra, R P Brinkmann and E Kemaneci
Zero-dimensional and pseudo-one-dimensional models of atmospheric-pressure plasma jet in binary and ternary mixtures of oxygen and nitrogen with helium background
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 30 105017, 2021

L D Pietanza, O Guaitella, V Aquilanti, I Armenise, A Bogaerts, M Capitelli, G Colonna, V Guerra, R Engeln, E Kustova, A Lombardi, F Palazzetti and T Silva
Advances in non-equilibrium CO2 plasma kinetics: a theoretical and experimental review
Eur. Phys. J. D 75 237 (55pp), 2021

G Colonna, C D Pintassilgo, F Pegoraro, A Cristofolini, A Popoli, G Neretti, A Gicquel, O Duigou, T Bieber, K Hassouni and L Laguardia
Theoretical and experimental aspects of non-equilibrium plasmas in different regimes: fundamentals and selected applications
Eur. Phys. J. D 75 183 (35pp), 2021

P Ogloblina, A S Morillo-Candas, A F Silva, T Silva, A Tejero-del-Caz, L L Alves, O Guaitella and V Guerra
Mars in situ oxygen and propellant production by non-equilibrium plasmas
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 30: 065005, 2021

A F Silva A S Morillo-Candás, A Tejero-del-Caz, L L Alves, O Guaitella and V Guerra
A reaction mechanism for vibrationally-cold low-pressure CO2 plasmas
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 29 125020, 2020

T C Dias and V Guerra
Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of plasma-chemistry
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 29 115003, 2020

A S Morillo-Candas, V Guerra and O Guaitella
Time Evolution of the Dissociation Fraction in rf CO2 Plasmas: Impact and Nature of Back-Reaction Mechanisms
J. Phys. Chem. C 124 17459–17475, 2020

L Terraz, T Silva, A Tejero-del-Caz, L L Alves and V Guerra
Sensitivity Analysis in Plasma Chemistry: Application to Oxygen Cold Plasmas and the LoKI Simulation Tool
J. Phys. Chem. A 124 4354−4366, 2020

P Ogloblina, A Tejero-del-Caz, V Guerra and L L Alves
Electron impact cross sections for carbon monoxide and their importance in the electron kinetics of CO2–CO mixtures
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 29 015002 (16pp), 2020

L Terraz, T Silva, A Morillo-Candas, O Guaitella, A Tejero-del-Caz, L L Alves and V Guerra
Influence of N2 on the CO2 vibrational distribution function and dissociation yield in non-equilibrium plasmas
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 53 094002 (22pp), 2020

V Guerra, A Tejero-del-Caz, C D Pintassilgo and L L Alves
Modelling N2–O2 plasmas: volume and surface kinetics
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 28 073001 (38pp), 2019

A Annušová, D Marinov, J-P Booth, N Sirse, M Lino da Silva, B Lopez and V Guerra
Kinetics of highly vibrationally excited O2(X) molecules in inductively-coupled oxygen plasmas
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 27 045006 (30pp), 2018

C D Pintassilgo and V Guerra
Kinetic mechanisms in air plasmas
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 61 014026, 2019

L L Alves, A Bogaerts, V Guerra and M M Turner
Foundations of modelling of nonequilibrium low-temperature plasmas
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 27 023002 (26pp), 2018

L L Alves, P Coche, M A Ridenti and V Guerra
Electron scattering cross sections for the modelling of oxygen-containing plasmas
Eur. Phys. J. D 70 124 1-9, 2016

M Grofulović, L L Alves and V Guerra
Electron-neutral scattering cross sections for CO2: a complete and consistent set and an assessment of dissociation
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49 395207 1-12, 2016

G D Stancu, O Leroy, P Coche, K Gadonna, V Guerra, T Minea and L L Alves
Microwave air plasmas in capillaries at low pressure II. Experimental investigation
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49 435202 1-15, 2016

M A Ridenti, L L Alves, V Guerra and J Amorim
The role of rotational mechanisms in electron swarm parameters at low reduced electric field in N2, O2 and H2
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 24 035002 1-16, 2015

D Marinov, V Guerra, O Guaitella, J P Booth and A Rousseau
Ozone kinetics in low-pressure discharges: vibrationally excited ozone and molecule formation on surfaces
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 22 055018, 2013