REG: Computer Equipment for the Computational Gaseous Electronics Group at the University of Illinois

本工程研究设备补助金用于为库什纳教授指导下建立的计算气体电子学新研究小组购买与microvax II兼容的计算机设备。本小组的目的是通过计算研究低温、高碰撞等离子体中的多维和瞬态现象。这些等离子体应用于技术上重要的设备，如气体激光器，等离子体处理反应器，光源（等离子体显示器），MHD和脉冲功率开关。库什纳教授的小组正在进行三个研究项目，其中正在开发大型计算机模拟程序：1)模拟非晶硅的等离子沉积和表面形态，2)模拟航天器表面闪络放电，3)模拟裂变碎片泵浦准分子激光器。研究还提出了研究等离子体通过收缩（如应用于闸流管），微波控制的打开开关的流动，以及气体放电中微粒物质引发的等离子体不稳定性。

This Engineering Research Equipment Grant is for acquisition of computer equipment compatible with a microvax II for a new research group for computational gaseous electronics being established under the direction of Professor Kushner. The purpose of this group is to computationally investigate multidimensional and transient phenomena in low temperature, highly collisional plasmas. These plasmas are applied to technologically important devices such as gas lasers, plasma processing reactors, lighting sources (plasma displays), MHD, and pulse power switches. There are three research projects in progress in Professor Kushner's group during which large computer simulation programs are being developed: 1) modeling plasma deposition and surface morphology of amorphous silicon, 2) simulation of surface flashover discharges on spacecraft, and 3) modeling of fission fragment pumped excimer lasers. Research has also been proposed to investigate the flow of plasma through constrictions (as applied to thyratrons), a microwave controlled opening switch, and plasma instabilities initiated by particulate matter in gas discharges.