Influence of radiation transport on discharge characteristics of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet in Argon
Abstract In the current work the method of radiation trapping treatment infinite coaxial cylinders using spherical coordinates is introduced. The operator of resonant transition process is obtained explicitly in the matrix form and its response to delta-function is analyzed in both hollow and solid cylinders. The influence of radiation trapping effect is shown on the example of model of miniaturized non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma jet. The results of the calculations with the developed matrix method are compared to those based on the effective probability approximation. It is shown that the use of matrix method leads to significant spatial redistribution of the excited plasma species due to the non-local effects of radiation transport mechanism.