Abstract
Modeling of minute plasma formation is of great importance around electrodes of a plasma actuator(PA) utilizing dielectric barrier discharge(DBD)with a relatively low computational cost. Although electrons need some distance to acquire sufficient energy causing impact ionization, such a transient phenomenon cannot be described in a conventional fluid model because of local field approximation. In order to simulate appropriate discharge process in the DBD-PA, a hybrid code coupling with a particle model was constructed, which treats high-density region as the fluid model but high electric field region as the particle model. The hybrid simulation reproduced spreading of the high-density region from the exposed electrode for the positively biased case as well as the full-particle simulation.
