Maybe a bug

When producing .gas file of H2, at electric field 5E+5 V/cm, the program stopped.
here is some output from terminal:


VEL      POS        TIME      ENERGY   COUNT   DIFXX     DIFYY     DIFZZ

54679.30 0.127D+03 0.232D+07********* 10 ******** ******** 0.0
54509.45 0.253D+03 0.464D+07********* 20 ******** ******** 0.0
54537.40 0.380D+03 0.696D+07********* 30 ******** ******** ********
54524.69 0.506D+03 0.929D+07********* 40 ******** ******** ********
54517.84 0.633D+03 0.116D+08********* 50 ******** ******** ********
54506.97 0.759D+03 0.139D+08********* 60 ******** ******** ********
54478.48 0.885D+03 0.163D+08********* 70 ******** ******** ********
54456.96 0.101D+04 0.186D+08********* 80 ******** ******** ********
54441.05 0.114D+04 0.209D+08********* 90 ******** ******** ********
54409.58 0.126D+04 0.232D+08********* 100 ******** ******** ********


CALCULATED MAX. COLLISION TIME = 28.08 PICOSECONDS.

NUMBER OF NULL COLLISIONS = 40547582
NUMBER OF REAL COLLISIONS = 40000000

Z DRIFT VELOCITY = 0.5441E+05 MICRONS/NANOSECOND ± 0.09%
Y DRIFT VELOCITY = 0.0000E+00 MICRONS/NANOSECOND ± 0.00%
X DRIFT VELOCITY = 0.0000E+00 MICRONS/NANOSECOND ± 0.00%

       DIFFUSION IN CM**2/SEC.

TRANSVERSE DIFFUSION = 0.5744D+07 ± 10.65%
= 527.8667 EV. ± 10.65%
= 459.507 MICRONS/CENTIMETER**0.5 ± 5.33%

LONGITUDINAL DIFFUSION = 0.7066D+09 ± 9.7%
=********* EV. ± 9.73%
= 5096.486 MICRONS/CENTIMETER**0.5 ± 4.87%

IONISATION RATE /CM.= 0.1390D+03 +/- 0.02 PERCENT.
ATTACHMENT RATE /CM.= 0.0000D+00 +/- 0.00 PERCENT.

MEAN ELECTRON ENERGY =********* EV. ERROR = ± 0.27%

SOLUTION FOR STEADY STATE TOWNSEND PARAMETERS

SPACE STEP BETWEEN SAMPLING PLANES = 0.93014D+02 MICRONS.


Hi,

Could you please formulate your question more precisely?

Best,
D

Hi,
try to lower the electric field. 500 kV/cm is an unrealistically high value for pure H2.

@hschindl , you are right, everything worked well at electric field 200 kV/cm,
but why?

I assume the program stalled because of the enormously high avalanche size.

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