Modeling of electrical field modified by injected space charge

Abstract

This paper presents the numerical solution of the coupled Poisson equation and charge conservation equation. We present an algorithm to obtain the distributions of electric field and charge density resulting from a corona discharge in the two-dimensional hyperbolic blade-ground plate configuration. We use finite elements method (FEM) to determine the potential distribution, finite volume method (FVM) and method of characteristics (MOC) to determine the distribution of charge density. The structured mesh is redefined at each iteration step to decrease artificial numerical diffusion. For solving the conservation equation, MOC with redefinition of structured mesh appears to be the best technique.