Particle-in-Cell/Monte Carlo Simulation of Positive Streamers With Photoionization Model

Author

Li, YongDong ; Wang, Ruopeng ; Zhang, Qiaogen ; Zhou, Yan ; Wang, Hongguang ; Liu, Chunliang

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Electr. Insulation & Power Equip., Xi´´an Jiaotong Univ., Xi´´an, China

Volume

39

Issue

11

fYear

2011

Firstpage

2226

Lastpage

2227

Abstract

A positive streamer in a strong electric field in air at 1-atm pressure is investigated with particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision method including a photoionization model. The simulation results of streamer discharge in parallel plate air gap with and without the photoionization model are compared. It is shown that the seed electrons produced by photoionization generate secondary avalanches which lead to the formation of the streamer. No streamer is observed without photoionization model.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; air gaps; discharges (electric); photoionisation; plasma collision processes; plasma simulation; Monte Carlo collision method; Monte Carlo simulation; parallel plate air gap; particle-in-cell simulation; photoionization model; positive streamer analysis; pressure 1 atm; secondary avalanche analysis; seed electron production process; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Ionization; Laboratories; Monte Carlo methods; Photonics; Plasmas; Monte Carlo; particle-in-cell; photoionization; positive streamer;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2011.2159740

Filename

5970127