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A self-consistent kinetic model of the stratification of plane and spherical low-pressure discharges in argon

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A self-consistent kinetic model is used to describe the effect of stratification of the positive column of a plane and a spherical gas discharge in argon at low pressure. The model is based on solving the Boltzmann kinetic equation for the electron energy distribution function, the time-dependent ion continuity equation, and Poisson’s equation for the self-consistent electric field. The spatial distributions of the electron and ion densities and of the electric field in the positive column of a stratified discharge are determined. The kinetic mechanism for discharge stratification in noble gases at low pressures is explained in terms of the proposed model. The model makes it possible to describe the moving strata and to confirm the validity of the experimentally obtained dependence of the radii of the strata on their numbers in a spherical discharge.

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  1. Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent’eva 1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    A. V. Fedoseev & G. I. Sukhinin

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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 30, No. 12, 2004, pp. 1139–148.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Fedoseev, Sukhinin.

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Fedoseev, A.V., Sukhinin, G.I. A self-consistent kinetic model of the stratification of plane and spherical low-pressure discharges in argon. Plasma Phys. Rep. 30, 1061–1070 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1839959

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