Continuous optical discharge stabilized by gas flow in weakly focused laser beam

AIAA Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1584-1588

  Conrad, R ^a,c   Raizer, Yu P ^b   Sarzhikov, S T ^b  

^a US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Rf 5   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS FLOWS; LASERS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

EID: 0030466648     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.13275     Document Type: Article

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