Abnormal and subnormal regimes of a spherical glow discharge in the drift-diffusion approximation |
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Authors: | G I Sukhinin A V Fedoseev |
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Institution: | (1) Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent’eva 1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia |
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Abstract: | A spherical glow discharge with a pointlike anode is considered in a self-consistent drift-diffusion approximation. The model includes the time-dependent continuity equations for ions and electrons in the drift-diffusion approximation and Poisson’s equation for the radial electric field. In finding steady-state distributions, Ohm’s law is used to relate the discharge voltage and discharge current. Steady-state distributions of the plasma parameters across the discharge gap, current-voltage characteristics, and cathode characteristics for an abnormal spherical discharge in molecular nitrogen are obtained. In a subnormal glow-discharge regime, oscillations in the conduction current, potential, and other discharge parameters are revealed. Similar regimes are also observed in conventional discharges in tubes. |
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