Simulation on Structure and Dynamic Behavior of Dust Particles in a Direct Current Plasma-Sheath

Abstract

In order to analyze structure and dynamic behavior of dust particles trapped in plasma-dc sheath boundary, we have developed object oriented 3-dimensional simulation code linked to movie system powered by JAVA. This report provides an overview of the developed simulation code, which will be opened as a public domain code. By using code, we have reproduced a Coulomb dust cloud observed experimentally with a funnel shape composed of multiple layers and simulate longitudinal waves' propagation to get their dispersion relation.