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Published September 1993 | public
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Studies of Electron-Molecule Collisions on Massively Parallel Computers

Abstract

Electron-molecule collisions, particularly those leading to dissociation of molecules and hence to production of chemically reactive fragments, play an important role in the modelling of plasmas used in materials processing. The available data base of the cross sections needed in modelling such plasmas is quite fragmentary. In fact, the lack of an adequate data base of relevant cross sections for calculating plasma properties is one of the major obstacles to improved modelling and simulation of plasma processes. In this presentation we review the progress we have made in exploiting the high-performance computing provided by the Intel Delta System to obtain quantitatively useful estimates of these electron impact cross sections.

Additional Information

© 1994 World Scientific. We wish to acknowledge the contributions of our collaborators, Paul Ripes, Qiyan Sun, and Marco Lima, to the work presented here. We also· wish to thank Paul Messina and the staff of the Caltech Concurrent Supercomputing Facility for providing the excellent environment in which our program development and calculations have been done. Financial support by the National Science Foundation, the IBM - Caltech Cooperative Agreement, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is gratefully acknowledged.

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