Multi-fluid modeling of magnetosonic wave propagation in the solar chromosphere: effects of impact ionization and radiative recombination

YG Maneva, AA Laguna, A Lani… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to study chromospheric magnetosonic wave propagation including, for the first time,
the effects of ion–neutral interactions in the partially ionized solar chromosphere, we have …

Fully-implicit finite volume method for the ideal two-fluid plasma model

AA Laguna, N Ozak, A Lani, H Deconinck… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a novel numerical model that simulates ideal two-fluid plasmas coupled to the
full set of Maxwell's equations with application to space and laboratory plasmas. We use a …

A fully-implicit finite-volume method for multi-fluid reactive and collisional magnetized plasmas on unstructured meshes

AA Laguna, A Lani, H Deconinck, NN Mansour… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract We present a Finite Volume scheme for solving Maxwell's equations coupled to
magnetized multi-fluid plasma equations for reactive and collisional partially ionized flows …

Effects of mesh topology on MHD solution features in coronal simulations

M Brchnelova, F Zhang, P Leitner, B Perri… - Journal of Plasma …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the solar corona have become more popular
with the increased availability of computational power. Modern computational plasma codes …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of non-equilibrium phenomena in inductively coupled plasma generators

W Zhang, A Lani, M Panesi - Physics of Plasmas, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This work addresses the modeling of non-equilibrium phenomena in inductively coupled
plasma discharges. In the proposed computational model, the electromagnetic induction …

An object-oriented implementation of a parallel Monte Carlo code for radiation transport

PD Santos, A Lani - Computer Physics Communications, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper describes the main features of a state-of-the-art Monte Carlo solver for radiation
transport which has been implemented within COOLFluiD, a world-class open source object …

SF: an open source object-oriented platform for unstructured shock-fitting methods

A Lani, V De Amicis - … Techniques, Recent Developments, and Memoirs of …, 2017 - Springer
Recently, shock-fitting methods have been re-gaining popularity as a valid alternative to
more standard shock-capturing schemes for tackling simulation of compressible flows …

Assessment of heat flux prediction capabilities of residual distribution method: application to atmospheric entry problems

JG Mena, R Pepe, A Lani… - … in Computational Physics, 2015 - cambridge.org
In the present contribution we evaluate the heat flux prediction capabilities of second-order
accurate Residual Distribution (RD) methods in the context of atmospheric (re-) entry …

An unstructured shock-fitting solver for hypersonic plasma flows in chemical non-equilibrium

R Pepe, A Bonfiglioli, A D'Angola, G Colonna… - Computer Physics …, 2015 - Elsevier
A CFD solver, using Residual Distribution Schemes on unstructured grids, has been
extended to deal with inviscid chemical non-equilibrium flows. The conservative equations …

An entropy-variables-based formulation of residual distribution schemes for non-equilibrium flows

J Garicano-Mena, A Lani, G Degrez - Journal of Computational Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper we present an extension of Residual Distribution techniques for the simulation
of compressible flows in non-equilibrium conditions. The latter are modeled by means of a …