The physics of streamer discharge phenomena

S Nijdam, J Teunissen, U Ebert - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review we describe a transient type of gas discharge which is commonly called a
streamer discharge, as well as a few related phenomena in pulsed discharges. Streamers …

Relaxation of electronic excitation in nitrogen/oxygen and fuel/air mixtures: fast gas heating in plasma-assisted ignition and flame stabilization

NA Popov, SM Starikovskaia - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Fast gas heating (FGH) is an abrupt increase in gas temperature in non-equilibrium low-
temperature plasma due to relaxation of electronically excited states of atoms and …

Dielectric barrier discharges: progress on plasma sources and on the understanding of regimes and single filaments

R Brandenburg - Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) are plasmas generated in configurations with an
insulating (dielectric) material between the electrodes which is responsible for a self-pulsing …

Plasma assisted ignition and combustion

SM Starikovskaia - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent decades particular interest in applications of nonequilibrium plasma for the
problems of plasma-assisted ignition and plasma-assisted combustion has been observed …

Atmospheric pressure discharge filaments and microplasmas: physics, chemistry and diagnostics

P Bruggeman, R Brandenburg - Journal of physics D: applied …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This review summarizes the state of the art of plasma diagnostics on atmospheric pressure
plasmas formed at characteristic length scales of approximately 1 mm or smaller and …

Fast gas heating in a nitrogen–oxygen discharge plasma: I. Kinetic mechanism

NA Popov - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
A model of fast heating of nitrogen–oxygen mixtures excited by a gas discharge in a broad
range of reduced electric fields E/N is presented. It is shown that in air at E/N⩽ 200 Td the …

Optical emission spectroscopy in low-temperature plasmas containing argon and nitrogen: determination of the electron temperature and density by the line-ratio …

XM Zhu, YK Pu - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews a variety of methods to obtain the electron temperature and density by
the emission line ratios for low-temperature plasmas containing argon or nitrogen gas …

Plasma-Based Degradation of Mycotoxins Produced by Fusarium, Aspergillus and Alternaria Species

L Ten Bosch, K Pfohl, G Avramidis, S Wieneke, W Viöl… - Toxins, 2017 - mdpi.com
The efficacy of cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAPP) with ambient air as working gas
for the degradation of selected mycotoxins was studied. Deoxynivalenol, zearalenone …

Titan tholins: simulating Titan organic chemistry in the Cassini-Huygens era

ML Cable, SM Hörst, R Hodyss… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Titan is the gem of the Saturnian system, an icy world laden with organics and shrouded in
an auburn haze. Due in large part to the discoveries of the Cassini-Huygens mission to the …

Atmospheric-pressure pulsed plasma actuators for flow control: shock wave and vortex characteristics

C Zhang, B Huang, Z Luo, X Che, P Yan… - … sources science and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Pulsed plasma actuators are used for an active flow control application since the 2000s. In
this paper, we discuss shock wave and vortex characteristics in pulsed plasma actuators …