Consequences of Balance Equations Applied to the Diffuse Plasma of Vacuum Arcs

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 657-660

  Hantzsche, Erhard ^a  

^a Saxonian Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER AND ALLOYS; PLASMAS;

BALANCE EQUATIONS; PARTIAL CURRENTS; SAHA EQUATION;

ELECTRIC ARCS;

EID: 0024749253     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.41176     Document Type: Article

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