pyplas - Basic library for low-temperature plasmas

The library contains a few very basic classes to store information about a low-temperature plasma and allows for the calculation of common plasma parameters. It's mainly meant to support other libraries that do actually useful things with this basic framework, like owlspec.

Install from pypi: pip install pyplas

Example

#!/bin/python3
import pyplas
from scipy import constants as const

n0 = 1e15
electrons = pyplas.electrons(n0, T=3*const.eV/const.k)
ions = pyplas.ions("Ar", n0, T=500)
neutrals = pyplas.neutrals("Ar", P=300)
plasma = pyplas.plasma(electrons, ions, neutrals, B=0.1)
print("Electron temperature (K): " + str(plasma.Te))
plasma.ion_neutral_cx = 1e-18
LD = plasma.get_Debye()
col_freq = plasma.get_ion_neutral_freq()

print("Ion gyro radius (mm): " + str(plasma.get_ion_gyro_radius()*1e3))