A new numerical strategy with space-time adaptivity and error control for multi-scale streamer discharge simulations

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Authors	DUARTE Max BONAVENTURA Zdeněk MASSOT Marc BOURDON Anne DESCOMBES Stephane DUMONT Thierry
Year of publication	2012
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Journal of Computational Physics
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2011.07.002
Field	Plasma physics
Keywords	Multi-scale discharge;Time adaptive integration;Space adaptive multiresolution;Error control
Description	This paper presents a new resolution strategy for multi-scale streamer discharge simulations based on a second order time adaptive integration and space adaptive multiresolution. A classical fluid model is used to describe plasma discharges, considering drift-diffusion equations and the computation of electric field. The proposed numerical method provides a time-space accuracy control of the solution, and thus, an effective accurate resolution independent of the fastest physical time scale.
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