Affiliation:
1. Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Abstract
We introduce a fluid computational model for the numerical simulation of atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge plasmas. Ion and neutral species are treated with an explicit drift diffusion approach. The Boltzmann relation is used to compute the spatial distribution of electrons as a function of the electrostatic potential and the ionic charge density. This technique, widely used to speed up particle and fluid models for low-pressure conditions, poses several numerical challenges for high-pressure conditions and large electric field values typical of applications involving atmospheric-pressure plasmas. We develop a robust algorithm to solve the non-linear electrostatic Poisson problem arising from the Boltzmann electron approach under AC electric fields based on a charge-conserving iterative computation of the reference electric potential and electron density. We simulate a volumetric reactor in dry air, comparing the results yielded by the proposed method with those obtained when the drift diffusion approach is used for all charged species, including electrons. We show that the proposed methodology retains most of the physical information provided by the reference modeling approach while granting a substantial advantage in terms of computation time.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Engineering,General Environmental Science
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