Interaction of biased electrodes and plasmas: sheaths, double layers, and fireballs

SD Baalrud, B Scheiner, BT Yee… - Plasma Sources …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Biased electrodes are common components of plasma sources and diagnostics. The plasma–
electrode interaction is mediated by an intervening sheath structure that influences …

Using machine learning to anticipate tipping points and extrapolate to post-tipping dynamics of non-stationary dynamical systems

D Patel, E Ott - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The ability of machine learning (ML) models to “extrapolate” to situations outside of the
range spanned by their training data is crucial for predicting the long-term behavior of non …

Equilibrium states of anodic double layers

SD Baalrud, B Longmier… - Plasma Sources Science …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Equilibrium states of anodic double layers that form near a positively biased disk-shaped
electrode immersed in a partially ionized plasma are studied experimentally using …

Laminar length and characteristic relation in type-I intermittency

E del Rio, S Elaskar, JM Donoso - Communications in Nonlinear Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
A method to investigate systems showing Type-I intermittency phenomenon is presented.
This method is an extension of the procedure we have recently established to study the Type …

Analysis of the intermittent behavior in a low-temperature discharge plasma by recurrence plot quantification

C Stan, CP Cristescu, DG Dimitriu - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The paper presents applications of the recurrence plot quantification to the analysis of type 1
intermittency observed in a discharge plasma. The main measures of recurrence plot …

On the interaction between two fireballs in low-temperature plasma

DG Dimitriu, SA Irimiciuc, S Popescu, M Agop… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We report experimental results and theoretical modeling showing the interaction between
two fireballs excited on two positively biased electrodes immersed in a low-temperature …

Experimental and theoretical investigations of a plasma fireball dynamics

O Niculescu, DG Dimitriu, VP Paun, PD Matasaru… - Physics of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Periodic current bursts observed in the dynamic current-voltage characteristic of a probe in
the presence of a plasma fireball in dynamic state were modeled in the frame of the scale …

Experimental and theoretical investigations of the negative differential resistance in a discharge plasma

M Agop, P Nica, O Niculescu… - Journal of the Physical …, 2012 - journals.jps.jp
Negative differential resistance effect in the current–voltage characteristic simultaneously
with the generation of a fireball in a plasma diode was experimentally evidenced by …

Discharge characteristics and mode transition of a ring-cusp magnetically confined plasma bridge neutralizer

L Ren, Y Wang, W Ding, A Sun, B Karadag… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The discharge mode characteristics of cathodes may strongly influence the discharge
stability and performance of electrostatic thrusters. In this article, discharge characteristics …

Numerical simulation of the bifurcation-remerging process and intermittency in an undriven direct current glow discharge

Z Chu, J Yao, C Yuan, Z Zhou, A Kudryavtsev, X Wang… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
As a complex nonlinear medium, gas discharge plasma can exhibit various nonlinear
discharge behaviors. In this study, in order to investigate the chaos phenomenon in the …