Plasma expansion and current flow in a vacuum arc with a small anode

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 872-876

  Beilis, Isak I ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA JETS; PLASMA SHEATHS;

ANODE SHEATH; ANODE VOLTAGE; ARC CURRENT COMPRESSION; PLASMA EXPANSION; VACUUM ARC;

VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0033341679     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.782252     Document Type: Article

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