emabre / pluto_capillary

A modified version of the code PLUTO useful for producing numerical simulations of hydrogen-filled capillary discharges (see also https://github.com/emabre/capillary)

Copyright

The software contained in this folder and its sub-folders (recursively) is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (Version 2, June 1991), which may be consulted by reading the file COPYING. This software is a modified version of the code PLUTO v. 4.2 (August 2015). PLUTO is developed by Andrea Mignone, with the contribution of C.Zanni, B.Vaidya, T.Matsakos, G.Musicianisi, P.Tzeferakos, O.Tesilanu (see http://plutocode.ph.unito.it/).

What is it?

This is a modified version of PLUTO, and I used it to produce the numerical simulations of hydrogen-filled capillary discharges that I included in my PhD thesis (http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1361281). You find an example here below.

This software is meant to work together with the source code files contained inside another repository of mine, capillary , which is also a modification and an integration of some of PLUTO's source code (and configuration files). In the process of working on the present software I was helped by Alberto Marocchino, Stefano Atzeni, Andrea Mignone (I sincerely thank you all). Everything is provided with no warranty at all. If you use it you do it at your own risk.

Main changes

• I changed the way temperature is computed for thermal conduction (in this version it is more general than simply p/rho).
• I added some code to handle an internal corner in internal boundary.
• I implemented and integrated into PLUTO an alternating direction implicit scheme for thermal conduction and resistivity.
• Furthermore, I have implemented accurate transport parameters (electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity) and dissociation law for low temperature hydrogen (approx 1eV) inside capillary
• I applied some other minor changes and added some comments

Original Readme file

The original Readme file is now named README_original

Emanuele Brentegani