Analytical model of electro-hydrodynamic flow in corona discharge
Published in Physics of Plasmas, 2018
Recommended citation: Yifei Guan, Ravi Sankar Vaddi, Alberto Aliseda, and Igor Novosselov. "Analytical model of electro-hydrodynamic flow in corona discharge." Physics of plasmas 25, no. 8 (2018): 083507. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5029403
We present an analytical model for electro-hydrodynamic flow that describes the relationship between the corona voltage, electric field, and ion charge density. The interaction between the accelerated ions and the neutral gas molecules is modeled as an external body force in the Navier-Stokes equation. The gas flow characteristics are solved from conservation principles with spectral methods. This multiphysics model is shown to match experimental data for a point-to-ring corona configuration, shedding new insights into mass, charge, and momentum transport phenomena, and can be readily implemented in any numerical simulation.
Recommended citation: Yifei Guan, Ravi Sankar Vaddi, Alberto Aliseda, and Igor Novosselov. “Analytical model of electro-hydrodynamic flow in corona discharge.” Physics of plasmas 25, no. 8 (2018): 083507.