Simulated avalanche formation around streamers in an overvolted air gap

Chao Li, Ute Ebert, Willem Hundsdorfer

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Abstract

We simulate streamers in air at standard temperature and pressure in a short overvolted gap. The simulation is performed with a 3-D hybrid model that traces the single electrons and photons in the low-density region while modeling the streamer interior as a fluid. The photons are followed by a Monte Carlo procedure, just like the electrons. First simulation results are presented here.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6006534
Pages (from-to)2256-2257
Number of pages2
JournalIEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume39
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2011

Funding

Manuscript received December 1, 2010; revised March 20, 2011; accepted March 27, 2011. Date of publication August 30, 2011; date of current version November 9, 2011. This work was supported in part by Project EWR Science of EUV 10010305 and in part by STW Project 10118. C. Li is with the Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands. U. Ebert and W. Hundsdorfer are with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPS.2011.2163528

Keywords

  • Gas discharge
  • hybrid model
  • photoionization
  • streamers

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