Physics – Computational Physics
Scientific paper
2007-01-02
Physics
Computational Physics
Submitted to Physical Review E
Scientific paper
We study the traveling wave solutions of a lattice Boltzmann model for the planar streamer fronts that appear in the transport of electrons through a gas in a strong electrical field. To mimic the physical properties of the impact ionization reaction, we introduce a reaction matrix containing reaction rates that depend on the electron velocities. Via a Chapman--Enskog expansion, one is able to find only a rough approximation for a macroscopic evolution law that describes the traveling wave solution. We propose to compute these solutions with the help of a coarse-grained time-stepper, which is an effective evolution law for the macroscopic fields that only uses appropriately initialized simulations of the lattice Boltzmann model over short time intervals. The traveling wave solution is found as a fixed point of the sequential application of the coarse-grained time-stepper and a shift-back operator. The fixed point is then computed with a Newton-Krylov Solver. We compare the resulting solutions with those of the approximate PDE model, and propose a method to find the minimal physical wave speed.
Leemput Pieter Van
Samaey Giovanni
Vanroose Wim
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