The physics of streamer discharge phenomena

S Nijdam, J Teunissen, U Ebert - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review we describe a transient type of gas discharge which is commonly called a
streamer discharge, as well as a few related phenomena in pulsed discharges. Streamers …

Barrier discharges in science and technology since 2003: a tribute and update

R Brandenburg, KH Becker, KD Weltmann - Plasma Chemistry and …, 2023 - Springer
An update to the article “Dielectric-barrier Discharges: Their History, Discharge Physics, and
Industrial Applications” by Ulrich Kogelschatz from 2003 is given. The research and …

Guided ionization waves: The physics of repeatability

XP Lu, KK Ostrikov - Applied Physics Reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Guided ionization waves, or plasma streamers, are increasingly important for many
applications in spanning materials processing and biomedicine. The highly reproducible …

3D PIC-MCC simulations of discharge inception around a sharp anode in nitrogen/oxygen mixtures

J Teunissen, U Ebert - Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate how photoionization, electron avalanches and space charge affect the
inception of nanosecond pulsed discharges. Simulations are performed with a 3D PIC-MCC …

Nanosecond pulsed sliding dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator for airflow control: Electrical, optical, and mechanical characteristics

KD Bayoda, N Benard, E Moreau - Journal of Applied Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Plasma actuators used for active flow control are widely studied because they could replace
mechanical actuators. Industrial applications of these plasma actuators sometimes require a …

Growth mechanism of three-dimensional plasma channels in high-voltage electric pulse rock breaking

X Zhu, S Liu, W Liu, X Zhou - Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2024 - Springer
High-voltage electric pulse rock-breaking technology has the potential to improve drilling
speed significantly. Numerous mechanism studies and laboratory experiments have laid the …

Quantitative modeling of streamer discharge branching in air

Z Wang, S Dijcks, Y Guo… - Plasma Sources …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Streamer discharges are the primary mode of electric breakdown of air in lightning and high
voltage technology. Streamer channels branch many times, which determines the …

Investigation of positive streamers by double-pulse experiments, effects of repetition rate and gas mixture

S Nijdam, E Takahashi, AH Markosyan… - … Sources Science and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Streamer discharges are often operated in a repetitively pulsed mode and are therefore
influenced by species left over from the previous discharge, especially free electrons and …

Afivo: A framework for quadtree/octree AMR with shared-memory parallelization and geometric multigrid methods

J Teunissen, U Ebert - Computer Physics Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
Afivo is a framework for simulations with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) on quadtree (2D)
and octree (3D) grids. The framework comes with a geometric multigrid solver, shared …

A comparison of 3D particle, fluid and hybrid simulations for negative streamers

C Li, J Teunissen, M Nool… - … Sources Science and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Modeling individual free electrons can be important in the simulation of discharge streamers.
Stochastic fluctuations in the electron density can accelerate the branching of streamers. In …