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NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE TOWNSEND DISCHARGES IN NITROGEN WITH HYDROGEN GAS ADMIXTURES

JÁNSKÝ, Jaroslav, David TRUNEC, Zdeněk NAVRÁTIL, Ronny BRANDENBURG, Hans-Erich WAGNER et. al.

Basic information

Original name

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE TOWNSEND DISCHARGES IN NITROGEN WITH HYDROGEN GAS ADMIXTURES

Name in Czech

Numerická simulace Townsendovského výboje za atmosférického tlaku v dusíku s příměsí vodíku

Authors

JÁNSKÝ, Jaroslav (203 Czech Republic), David TRUNEC (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Zdeněk NAVRÁTIL (203 Czech Republic), Ronny BRANDENBURG (276 Germany) and Hans-Erich WAGNER (276 Germany)

Edition

Francie, Proccedings of HAKONE X, p. 1-5, 5 pp. 2008

Publisher

University of Toulouse

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10305 Fluids and plasma physics

Country of publisher

France

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/08:00025015

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

electrical discharge; atmospheric pressure; nitrogen

Tags

International impact
Změněno: 10/11/2008 18:44, prof. RNDr. David Trunec, CSc.

Abstract

V originále

In this contribution the influence of hydrogen admixture on an Atmospheric Pressure Townsend Discharge (APTD) in nitrogen is investigated by means of numerical modelling and experiments. The numerical model is a one-dimensional fluid model. Electron emission from dielectrics by a diffusion flux of metastable molecules and photoemission are incorporated in the model. The secondary emission due to ions is neglected. The results are compared with measured electrical parameters (ignition voltage, voltage necessary for causing the transition to the filamentary regime and current evolution). The measured and simulated current profiles of discharge in nitrogen-hydrogen mixture are similar for applied voltages close to ignition voltage. The simulations give a qualitative explanation for the measured current profiles in pure nitrogen and for small admixtures of hydrogen. The results indicate that the influence of hydrogen on the APTD is due to the quenching of the main metastable state N2(A 3 Sigma+ u ) by hydrogen molecules and atoms. Generally a APTD typical one peak current structure is caused by secondary electron emission by nitrogen metastable molecules, a current pulse with multiple peaks is caused mainly by secondary emission of ions or photoemission.

In Czech

In this contribution the influence of hydrogen admixture on an Atmospheric Pressure Townsend Discharge (APTD) in nitrogen is investigated by means of numerical modelling and experiments. The numerical model is a one-dimensional fluid model. Electron emission from dielectrics by a diffusion flux of metastable molecules and photoemission are incorporated in the model. The secondary emission due to ions is neglected. The results are compared with measured electrical parameters (ignition voltage, voltage necessary for causing the transition to the filamentary regime and current evolution). The measured and simulated current profiles of discharge in nitrogen-hydrogen mixture are similar for applied voltages close to ignition voltage. The simulations give a qualitative explanation for the measured current profiles in pure nitrogen and for small admixtures of hydrogen. The results indicate that the influence of hydrogen on the APTD is due to the quenching of the main metastable state N2(A 3 Sigma+ u ) by hydrogen molecules and atoms. Generally a APTD typical one peak current structure is caused by secondary electron emission by nitrogen metastable molecules, a current pulse with multiple peaks is caused mainly by secondary emission of ions or photoemission.

Links

GA202/06/1473, research and development project
Name: Depozice tenkých vrstev v dielektrických bariérových výbojích za atmosférického tlaku
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Deposition of thin films in dielectric barrier discharges at atmospheric pressure