A WENO Scheme for Simulating Streamer Discharge With Photoionizations

Author

Chijie Zhuang ; Rong Zeng ; Bo Zhang ; Jinliang He

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

50

Issue

2

fYear

2014

fDate

Feb. 2014

Firstpage

325

Lastpage

328

Abstract

This paper proposes a weighted essentially nonoscillatory (WENO) finite difference method to simulate the 2-D fluid model of streamer discharges between two parallel plates. To simulate the rapid transient streamer discharge process, traditional linear schemes would fail and a nonlinear method with high resolution and high-order accuracy is greatly desired. WENO scheme is a good choice. In addition, the exact photoionization model is considered. A simulation of a double-headed streamer discharge was performed using the exact photoionization model and simplified uniform background photoionization model. Finally, the results were compared.

Keywords

boundary layers; computational fluid dynamics; discharges (electric); finite difference methods; flow simulation; photoionisation; 2D fluid model; WENO scheme; double headed streamer discharge simulation; exact photoionization model; high resolution accuracy; high-order accuracy; nonlinear method; parallel plates; rapid transient streamer discharge; traditional linear schemes; weighted essentially nonoscillatory finite difference method; Computational modeling; Discharges (electric); Equations; Fault location; Ionization; Mathematical model; Photoionization; WENO finite difference; streamer discharge simulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2013.2281831

Filename

6749037