A second-order accurate finite volume method for the computation of electrical conditions inside a wire-plate electrostatic precipitator on unstructured meshes

In this paper, an unstructured cell-centered second-order accurate finite volume method is presented for the computation of electrical conditions inside wire-plate electrostatic precipitators. The potential equation was discretized using a second-order accurate scheme by invoking a new type of special line-structure. The space-charge density equation was discretized using a second-order upwind scheme, and solved using a new direct method. The local gradients are reconstructed by a weighted least-square reconstruction method. The method can deal with complex geometries by using unstructured meshes. Numerical experiments show that the predicted results agree well with the existing experimental data. Published by Elsevier B.V.