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DC Glow in a planar geometry initialisation

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I am using the plasma module to model DC glow in argon using electrodes embedded in a substrate covered with a thin polymer film, it is driven by a 750V 1MHz source.

The model seems right but it (Study 2) fails to find consistant initial values even with zero voltage at the terminal suffers from a "divided by zero" error. I cannot figure out how to debug this error.

I have tried steps such as massivley increasing the extent of the argon and substrate regions to avoid significant voltage at the boundries, removing all voltage from the terminal, a variety of initial electron counts and voltages, varying film height and electrode seperation, switching solver, using a finer mesh, and initialising using a stationary solution (which is obviously inapplicable for a plasma simulation). Is there a way to step through the last few itterations of the initialisation to find where the error is occuring?

Can anyone suggest anything which may solve this issue?


2 Replies Last Post 2017年9月23日 GMT-4 11:23

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Posted: 7 years ago 2017年8月17日 GMT-4 03:07
Hi,
I made these changes and the model no longer displays the "fails to find consistant initial values" error.
=> I have enabled for Ar initial value from mass constraints
=> I have enabled for Ar+ initial value from electro-neutrality constraints
=> Initial electron density to 1e13 1/m3
=> Solvers: maximum number of iterations = 100
Good luck
Hi, I made these changes and the model no longer displays the "fails to find consistant initial values" error. => I have enabled for Ar initial value from mass constraints => I have enabled for Ar+ initial value from electro-neutrality constraints => Initial electron density to 1e13 1/m3 => Solvers: maximum number of iterations = 100 Good luck

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Posted: 7 years ago 2017年9月23日 GMT-4 11:23

In Plasma module the error "divided by zero" is usually caused by improper ICs for species.

In Plasma module the error "divided by zero" is usually caused by improper ICs for species.

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