Pure air-plasma bullets propagating inside microcapillaries and in ambient air
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ArticleKAUST Department
Clean Combustion Research CenterMechanical Engineering Program
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2014-11-04Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563844
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This paper reports on the characterization of air-plasma bullets in microcapillary tubes and in ambient air, obtained without the use of inert or noble gases. The bullets were produced by nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges, applied in a dielectric barrier discharge configuration. The anode was a tungsten wire with a diameter of 50 μm, centered in the microcapillary, while the cathode was a silver ring, fixed on the outer surface of the fused silica tube. The effects of the applied voltage and the inner diameter of the microcapillary tube on the plasma behavior were investigated. Inside the tubes, while the topology of the bullets seems to be strongly dependent on the diameter, their velocity is only a function of the amplitude of the applied voltage. In ambient air, the propagation of air bullets with a velocity of about 1.25 ×105 m s-1 is observed.Citation
Lacoste, D. A., Bourdon, A., Kuribara, K., Urabe, K., Stauss, S., & Terashima, K. (2014). Pure air–plasma bullets propagating inside microcapillaries and in ambient air. Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 23(6), 062006. doi:10.1088/0963-0252/23/6/062006Sponsors
This research was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, Grant No 21110002, from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, and by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Grant No 24246120, from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.Publisher
IOP Publishingae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1088/0963-0252/23/6/062006