Moving boundary approximation for curved streamer ionization fronts: Numerical tests
Plasma Physics
2009-07-06 v1
Abstract
Recently a moving boundary approximation for the minimal model for negative streamer ionization fronts was extended with effects due to front curvature; this was done through a systematic solvability analysis. A central prediction of this analysis is the existence of a nonvanishing electric field in the streamer interior, whose value is proportional to the front curvature. In this paper we compare this result and other predictions of the solvability analysis with numerical simulations of the minimal model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0901.1916,
title = {Moving boundary approximation for curved streamer ionization fronts: Numerical tests},
author = {Fabian Brau and Alejandro Luque and Benny Davidovitch and Ute Ebert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1916},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 8 figures