A WENO Scheme for Simulating Streamer Discharge With Photoionizations

作者:Zhuang, Chijie; Zeng, Rong*; Zhang, Bo; He, Jinliang
来源:IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 2014, 50(2): 7007904.
DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2013.2281831

摘要

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.