Plasma generation for the plasma cutting process

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 937-946

  Ramakrishnan, S ^a   Gershenzon, Maya ^a   Polivka, Frederick ^a   Kearney, Trevor N ^a   Rogozinski, Maciej W ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; NOZZLES; PLASMA ARC CUTTING; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA JETS;

PLASMA GENERATION;

PLASMA TORCHES;

EID: 0031247974     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.649600     Document Type: Article

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