A two-dimensional computer model of the normal glow discharge in axisymmetric geometry in molecular nitrogen is presented. The structure of a glow discharge is described in the frame of the diffusion-drift model, while the transport and kinetic properties of the model are calculated by solving the electron Boltzmann equation and system of the state-to-state equations for prediction of populations of vibrational and electronic states. Calculations of energy accumulated in the electronic- and vibrational excited levels of molecules as well as efficiency of energy transfer into Joule heat are performed. In view of the state-to-state vibrational kinetics of anharmonic oscillators, vibrational populations of excited molecules of molecular nitrogen inside the normal glow discharge are calculated.
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