Development of a parallelised, adaptive mesh drift-diffusion solver in FEniCS for the modelling of streamer discharges in gas-solid topologies

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Abstract

Streamer discharges are fast ionisation fronts that are of crucial importance to many academic and industrial fields, including: understanding of geophysical processes, gaseous breakdown, surface treatment technology, bio-decontamination, air cleaning, and pulsed power system design. The growing capabilities of modern computers allow streamers to be simulated on desktop computers. However, it is far from a trivial task. In this work, we demonstrate a parallelised, adaptive-mesh enabled code developed using FEniCS in python. We show that the platform is capable of simulating streamer propagation in pure gas and across gas-solid interfaces, with the inclusion of complex photoionisation processes, while simultaneously being user-friendly yet comparably fast to previously published codes. We further demonstrate that FEniCS is a highly suitable alternative, by showing excellent agreement between our simulated results, results from published custom codes, and results from popular commercial applications.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 12 Dec 2021
Event2021 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) - Denver, United States
Duration: 12 Dec 202116 Dec 2021
https://uta.engineering/ppcsofe2021/

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC)
Country/TerritoryUnited States
Period12/12/2116/12/21
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Keywords

  • photoionisation
  • single positive streamers

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