Null-collision MCC
The method of Vahedi and Surendra (1995). Elastic and backscatter collisions, excitation, ionization, attachment, detachment and charge transfer against Maxwellian neutral gases, uniform or with a density profile.
plasmacoll
Monte Carlo collisions of charged particles with neutral gases, for particle-in-cell codes and 0D reactor studies, on CPU or GPU.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Plain arrays, CPU or GPU
Markers are positions, velocities and weights in NumPy or CuPy arrays through cunumpy. Any particle container that has them plugs in.
Cross sections
Tables from text and LXCat files or from functions, Maxwell-molecule cross sections for benchmarks, and population-weighted mixtures of level-resolved cross sections.
0D reactor
A homogeneous reactor advanced by collisions alone, for testing cross-section sets and reaction chains before a spatial simulation.
Start here
Section titled “Start here”InstallationInstall the package and its extras.
QuickstartCollide electrons with a gas in a few lines.
The null-collision methodWhat one collision step does, and how to choose the time step.
TutorialsExecuted notebooks: relaxation, ionization, EEDFs, negative ions.