Calculation of voltage and space charge distributions in a wire-plate electrostatic precipitator

Abstract

Several convergence acceleration methods have been introduced into procedures developed by the Southern Research Institute for calculating voltage and space charge distributions in parallel plate electrostatic precipitators. A dominant eigenvalue method is used in conjunction with several other techniques to promote convergence of an iterative calculation of these quantities. In each of two test problems, the effect of the acceleration step was to reduce the required computation time to roughly 5% of its original value.