Plasma Modelling and Simulation

The Lisbon Kinetics (LoKI) Suite

The Lisbon Kinetics (LoKI) Suite comprises a collection of simulation tools mostly intended for plasma chemistry studies.

• The Lisbon Kinetics Global Model (LoKI-GM) , comprising:
  • The Lisbon Kinetics Boltzmann solver (LoKI-B)
  • The Lisbon Kinetics Chemistry solver (LoKI-C)
• The Lisbon Kinetics Monte Carlo (LoKI-MC)
• The Lisbon Kinetics Boltzmann solver in C++ (LoKI-B++)

The LoKI-Suite tools and data leverage the expertise in the field of non-equilibrium low-temperature plasmas accumulated over many years by the Portuguese group N-Plasmas Reactive: Modelling and Engineering (N-PRiME) .

Their development has been guided by four main principles:

• Adoption of an ontology that prioritizes a clear separation between tools and data.
• Flexibility to host any plasma chemistry scheme, covering both volume and surface mechanisms and allowing a full state-to-state description.
• Consistency in the coupling between electron kinetics and heavy-species kinetics, particularly in determining the discharge characteristic.
• Clarity in defining the working conditions relevant for comparing simulation results with experimental measurements.