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Three-dimensional numerical modelling of gas discharges at atmospheric pressure incorporating photoionization phenomena

L Papageorgiou1, A C Metaxas2 and G E Georghiou1

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A three-dimensional (3D) numerical model for the characterization of gas discharges in air at atmospheric pressure incorporating photoionization through the solution of the Helmholtz equation is presented. Initially, comparisons with a two-dimensional (2D) axi-symmetric model are performed in order to assess the validity of the model. Subsequently several discharge instabilities (plasma spots and low pressure inhomogeneities) are considered in order to study their effect on streamer branching and off-axis propagation. Depending on the magnitude and position of the plasma spot, deformations and off-axis propagation of the main discharge channel were obtained. No tendency for branching in small (of the order of 0.1 cm) overvolted discharge gaps was observed.


PACS

52.80.Mg Arcs; sparks; lightning; atmospheric electricity

52.35.Qz Microinstabilities (ion-acoustic, two-stream, loss-cone, beam-plasma, drift, ion- or electron-cyclotron, etc.)

52.25.Jm Ionization of plasmas

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Plasma physics

Dates

Issue 4 (2 February 2011)

Received 18 September 2010, in final form 20 November 2010

Published 6 January 2011



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