3 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
SoPlasmaFoam: an OpenFOAM-based solver for streamer and dielectric barrier discharges with adaptive mesh refinement
R. Pasolari, K. Kourtzanidis
SoPlasmaFoam is an open-source, multi-region plasma-dielectric solver built on OpenFOAM, integrated with the PETSc linear-algebra suite (CPU and GPU back-ends), the blastAMR adapti…
physics.plasm-ph2025
Spatiotemporal dynamics of nanosecond pulsed discharge in the form of a fast ionization wave: self-consistent two-dimensional modeling and comparison with experiments under negative and positive polarity
Konstantinos Kourtzanidis, Svetlana M. Starikovskaia
Nanosecond discharges are characterized by a shift in energy branching toward the excitation of electronic levels and dissociation, making them particularly attractive for plasma c…
physics.plasm-ph2024
Numerical analysis of partial discharge ignition in H2 bubbles floating in dielectric oils, for High-Voltage Solid State Transformer applications
Konstantinos Kourtzanidis, Panagiotis Dimitrakellis, Dimitrios Rakopoulos
We report on a self-consistent numerical analysis campaign of partial discharge (PD) ignition in H2 bubbles floating in biobased dielectric oils. We investigate various configurati…