  Complex plasmas are low-temperature plasmas that contain micrometer-size
particles in addition to the neutral gas particles and the ions and electrons
that make up the plasma. The microparticles interact strongly and display a
wealth of collective effects. Here we report on linked numerical simulations
that reproduce many of the experimental results of complex plasmas. We model a
capacitively coupled plasma with a fluid code written for the commercial
package comsol. The output of this model is used to calculate forces on
microparticles. The microparticles are modeled using the molecular dynamics
package lammps, which we extended to include the forces from the plasma. Using
this method, we are able to reproduce void formation, the separation of
particles of different sizes into layers, lane formation, vortex formation, and
other effects.
