The use of the ghost fluid method for Poisson's equation to simulate streamer propagation in point-to-plane and point-to-point geometries

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Celestin, Sebastien ^a   Bonaventura, Zdenek ^a,b   Zeghondy, Barbar ^a   Bourdon, Anne ^a   Ségur, Pierre ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE EM2C   (France)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; GEOMETRY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; GHOST FLUID METHODS; INTER-ELECTRODE GAPS; LAPLACIAN POTENTIALS; NEGATIVE STREAMERS; PLANE CONFIGURATIONS; PLANE GEOMETRIES; POINT ELECTRODES; POINT GEOMETRIES; POISSON'S EQUATIONS; PREHEATED AIRS; STREAMER DISCHARGES; STREAMER PROPAGATION;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 63649138710     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/42/6/065203     Document Type: Article

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