[Dzhordzhs]

Hello!

Program was designed as a part of Bachelor's thesis. The purpose was to create a tool to optimize magnetron sputtering process.

Keywords:
OpenFOAM, Salome, snappyHexMesh, electrons, magnetic field

Pre-processing:
- Geometry export from Salome, .stl file processing.

Electric and magnetic fields:
- Electric field calculation via electric scalar potential.
- Magnetic field calculation via vectorial magnetic potential.
- Hybrid boundary conditions for magnetic vector potential on boundaries between two regions.
- Magnetic permeability dependence on magnetic field strength.
- Open boundary conditions (infinite space).

Particles:
- Particles can be initialized in one or many separate regions.
- Particles of different species (charges, masses etc.).
- Particles can be initialized from any specific boundary (inlet).

Possible applications:
- Salome script scriptSalome.py and Bash script mergeFiles can be used to generate complicated geometries and export them to the OpenFOAM.
- Heat and mass transfer equations can be added to multiRegionFOAM and rarefied gas dynamics can be studied in complicated geometry cases.

https://github.com/jvencels/multiRegionPlasma
http://youtu.be/o-qdLP7xJWw

Here you will find the program, test example and written work (in Latvian).

I am not working on this project now, but anyway I would like to discuss the limits of OpenFOAM to solve electromagnetic problems, meshing etc.

Any suggestions are very-very welcome!

Juris