Calculation of Electron Swarm Parameters in Ar/H2 and Kr/H2 Mixtures

TL;DR

This paper calculates electron swarm parameters like mobility and ionization coefficients in Ar/H2 and Kr/H2 gas mixtures to support modeling of electrical discharges, comparing results with existing measurements.

Contribution

It provides new calculations of electron swarm parameters in Ar/H2 and Kr/H2 mixtures, aiding fluid discharge modeling.

Findings

Calculated electron mobility, energy, and ionization coefficients.

Results agree with previous experimental data.

Enhanced understanding of electron behavior in gas mixtures.

Abstract

To develop the modeling of electrical discharges in a gaseous medium, it must to know a numbers of basic data such as: the electron collision cross sections for particle modeling or the electron swarm parameters in the case of the fluid modeling. The knowledge of all the electron swarm parameters as a function of the reduced electric field is indispensable for the fluid models based on the first and the second moment of the electron energy distribution function. The objective of this work is to calculate the mobility, the characteristic energy, and the ionization coefficient in the case of the mixtures Ar/H2 and Kr/H2. The results obtained will be compared with measurements already made by different authors.