A two-dimensional dielectric barrier discharge with N2 gas at atmospheric pressure. Even though discharge conditions - high pressure, high plasma density - are not favourable for a PIC-MC approach it is applicable here due to a very small geometry and time scale, respectively.

The zip archive contains mesh and two parameter files for the plasma simulation. To start case one with negative electrode potential (-1000 V) and 16 processes maximum enter:

$ rvmmpi -picmc 16 v3_highRes_minus.par

To start case two with positve electrode potential (-1000 V) and 16 processes maximim enter accordantly:

$ rvmmpi -picmc 16 v3_highRes_plus.par

The videos below show the resulting electron density and potential evolution during 40 nanoseconds(!) of the simulated discharge.