FEM-FCT-based dynamic simulation of corona discharge in point-plane configuration

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1699-1706

  Sattari, Paria ^a   Castle, G S Peter ^a   Adamiak, Kazimierz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corona discharge; dynamic simulation; finite element method (FEM); flux corrected transport (FCT)

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; CORONA CURRENTS; CORONA DISCHARGES; DYNAMIC CORONA; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; FLUX-CORRECTED TRANSPORT (FCT); FLUX-CORRECTED TRANSPORTS; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; POINT-PLANE CONFIGURATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SPACE CHARGES; WAVE FORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CORONA; ELECTRIC FIELDS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77956931683     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2010.2057493     Document Type: Article

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