Enhanced reliability of drift-diffusion approximation for electrons in fluid models for nonthermal plasmas

Common fluid models used for the description of electron transport in nonthermal discharge plasmas are subject to substantial restrictions if the electron energy transport significantly influences the discharge behaviour. A drift-diffusion approach is presented which is based on a multiterm approxim...

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Main Authors: M. M. Becker, D. Loffhagen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2013-01-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.4775771