Modeling glow discharge at atmospheric pressure in argon

This paper presents the characteristics of radio frequency atmospheric pressure discharge in argon based on numerical modeling. A fluid model with one-dimensional based on the first three moments of Boltzmann equation, coupled with Poisson's equations used in this work. The discharge usually consists of several locally filaments. The Radio-Frequency generator with an appropriate width and period, it was found possible to control the filament to glow transition in order to obtain diffused and stable plasma. The model allows us to obtain the axial distributions parameters of the discharge at different times of Radio-Frequency cycle (RF). The principal parameters are the electronic density, ionic density, electric potential, electric field and electronic temperature.