EDIPIC Code

The EDIPIC code was developed for kinetic studies of plasmas. The code includes a detailed model of secondary electron emission. The Monte-Carlo model of electron-neutral collisions and the Langevin model of Coulomb collisions for electrons are also implemented. The code is written in Fortran 90 and parallelized with the Message Passing Interface (MPI). The code is equipped with numerous, diverse diagnostics of the phase -space. Numerous publications describing use of EDIPIC spanning last two decades related to discharges and electric propulsion devices are available at the PPPL websites (e.g. http://htx.pppl.gov). Fig. 1 shows an example of EDIPC results obtained in studies of plasma-wall interactions in the presence of a strong electron emission from the wall.