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HE Wei (何为), LIU Xinghua (刘兴华), XIAN Richang (咸日常), CHEN Suhong (陈素红), LIAO Ruijin (廖瑞金), YANG Fan (杨帆), XIAO Hanguang (肖汉光). Kinetics Characteristics and Bremsstrahlung of Argon DC Discharge Under Atmospheric Pressure[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2013, 15(4): 335-342. DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/15/4/06
Citation: HE Wei (何为), LIU Xinghua (刘兴华), XIAN Richang (咸日常), CHEN Suhong (陈素红), LIAO Ruijin (廖瑞金), YANG Fan (杨帆), XIAO Hanguang (肖汉光). Kinetics Characteristics and Bremsstrahlung of Argon DC Discharge Under Atmospheric Pressure[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2013, 15(4): 335-342. DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/15/4/06

Kinetics Characteristics and Bremsstrahlung of Argon DC Discharge Under Atmospheric Pressure

  • An improved self-consistent, multi-component, and one-dimensional plasma model for simulating atmospheric pressure argon glow discharge is presented. In the model, both the plasma hydrodynamics model and chemical model are considered. The numerical simulation is carried out for parallel-plate geometry with a separation of 0.06 cm. The results show that Ar¤ plays a major role in the discharge, which is mainly produced by ground state excitation reaction. The electron temperature reaches its maximum in the cathode sheath but maintains a low value (0.23 eV) in bulk plasma. Elastic collision is the dominant volumetric electron energy loss in atmosphere argon glow discharge, which is negligible in low pressure argon glow discharge. The metastable step-wise ionization is the main mechanism for electron production to sustain the discharge. However, the highest contribution to electron production rate is ground state ionization reaction. The bremsstrahlung power density is related to electric voltage. With the increase of the electric voltage, the bremsstrahlung power density increases, namely, the strength of ultraviolet radiation spectrum enhances in the cathode sheath.
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