Boltzmann equation analysis and Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport in N2-O2 streamer discharge

We have calculated data for electron transport in mixtures of molecular nitrogen and oxygen which may serve as the basis for modeling physical and chemical processes in streamer plasma discharges in air. A multi-term theory for solving the Boltzmann equation and a Monte Carlo simulation technique are used to investigate transport and to obtain exact transport coefficients and spatially resolved transport data. Values and general trends in the profiles of the mean energy, drift velocity, diffusion coefficients and rate coefficients are reported.

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

55

0003-0503

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