Computer simulation of gas transport in a magnetically stabilized glow discharge
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 55 (3) , 708-713
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.333128
Abstract
Gas flow in a magnetically stabilized glow discharge is analyzed by using a single fluid magnetogasdynamic model. The resulting system of time dependent, nonlinear, coupled partial differential equations is solved numerically on an Eulerian mesh by using an iterative alternating direction implicit finite difference method. The numerical results reveal the importance of considering the secondary flows that are driven by the strongly sheared rotational flow within the discharge volume. The numerical results are confirmed experimentally.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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