Visualization and Analysis of Large-Scale Atomistic Simulations of Plasma-Surface Interactions

Abstract
We present a simulation-visualization pipeline that uses the LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator and the Visualization Toolkit to create a visualization and analysis environment for atomistic simulations of plasma-surface interactions. These simulations are used to understand the origin of fuzz-like, microscopic damage to tungsten and other metal surfaces by helium. The proposed pipeline serves both as an aid to visualization, i.e. drawing the surfaces of gas bubbles and voids/cavities in the metal, as well as a means of analysis, i.e. extracting various statistics and gas bubble evolution details. The result is a better understanding of the void and bubble formation process that is difficult if not impossible to get using conventional atomistic visualization software.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:eurovisshort.20151117
, booktitle = {
Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) - Short Papers
}, editor = {
E. Bertini and J. Kennedy and E. Puppo
}, title = {{
Visualization and Analysis of Large-Scale Atomistic Simulations of Plasma-Surface Interactions
}}, author = {
Widanagamaachchi, Wathsala
and
Hammond, Karl
and
Lo, Li-Ta
and
Wirth, Brian
and
Samsel, Francesca
and
Sewell, Christopher
and
Ahrens, James
and
Pascucci, Valerio
}, year = {
2015
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISBN = {}, DOI = {
10.2312/eurovisshort.20151117
} }
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