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Antiforce Wave Profile For Quasi-Neutral Region, Mostafa Hemmati, Pashupati Adhikari, Jeremy Eckart, Marcus Ilbara

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

This article will present a fluid dynamical theory for breakdown waves in which the direction of electric field force on electrons is in the opposite direction of wave propagation. We will refer to such waves as antiforce waves. The set of equations describing the model will include the equation of particle mass balance, equation of conservation of momentum, and equation of conservation of energy, coupled with Poisson's equation. This model treats the potential wave front as an electron shock wave propagating forward mainly due to the electron impact ionization. The shock front is succeeded by a thin dynamical transition region …