NUMERICAL STUDY OF A GLOW DISCHARGE IN A CO2-N2-He GAS MIXTURE.

Increased interest has developed in the volume glow discharge in CO//2-N//2-He gas mixtures because of their wide use as active media in gas discharge lasers. To obtain a steady-state solution this study employs an effective method for solution of the steady-state problem, allowing study of volume glow discharges over a wide range of parameters and construction of current-voltage characteristics (CVCs) for the discharge. In calculating discharges in the attachment instability region the nonsteady-state equations were integrated numerically using an implicit difference method.