Section: New Results

Development of a two temperature model

Participants : Hervé Guillard, Afeintou Sangam, Elise Estibals.

A two temperature (ions - electrons) version of the code is in development. At present an approximate Riemann solver using the total energy equation and the electron entropy as main variables has been designed. This Riemann solver has been validated against standard shock tube problems and incorporated in the PlaTo platform. The implementation of this solver in toroidal geometry is in progress.