We are pleased to announce that the latest version of the OverViz software package has been released! Many new additions and enhancements have been made to our flagship VizGlow non-thermal and VizSpark thermal plasma solvers.

 

Key New Features and Enhancements

 

• New improved VizMesh with improved usability, bug fixes, capability to add splines to geometry, specify primitive shapes as modular objects, import STL files.

• New capability to specify surface chemistry using particles in VizGrain

• Coupled circuits module with current continuity equation system in VizSpark

• Added new circuits to simulate spark ignition, and to perform frequency power control

• New fast model to predict streamer breakdown in VizGlow

• Hybrid initialization for improved convergence of steady state flow

• Capability to split EM power into capacitive and inductive components in VizGlow

• Extended VizGlow’s non-linear magnetostatics capability to support 2D TM, 3D problems

• Included an option to match EM Power absorbed in sync with VizGlow’s external circuits

• Improved handling of large meshes  (> 10 million cells) by reducing memory footprint

• Improved the accuracy and stability of coupled circuit solver in VizGlow

• Improved the robustness and speed of the reactive flow solver in VizSpark

• Improved accuracy of the flow solver allowing for accurate shock capturing

• Improvements to electron mobility and diffusion models for magnetized plasma