Title :
Two-dimensional simulation of streamer discharge including the vibrationally excited molecules effects
Author :
Komuro, Atsushi ; Ono, Ryo ; Oda, Tetsuji
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
The vibrationally excited molecules play an important role in the plasma process. We numerically calculate the two-dimensional point-to-plane streamer propagation and the vibrational kinetics in atmospheric pressure dry-air (80% N2, 20% O2) environment. The calculated streamer discharge characteristics, such as the mean streamer velocity and the streamer channel radius, show good agreement with an experimentally obtained results. The calculation shows that vibrational temperature for N2 is higher than for O2 and these two temperature have a different spatial distribution.
Keywords :
air; discharges (electric); nitrogen; numerical analysis; oxygen; plasma simulation; plasma temperature; plasma transport processes; N2-O2; atmospheric pressure dry-air; plasma process; pressure 1 atm; spatial distribution; streamer channel; streamer discharge; two-dimensional point-to-plane streamer propagation; two-dimensional simulation; vibrational temperature; vibrationally-excited molecules effects; Discharges; Atmospheric-pressure plasmas; Corona; Plasma simulation; Vibrationally excited molecules;
Conference_Titel :
Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9498-9
DOI :
10.1109/IAS.2011.6074282
