Improvement on the modelling of non-transferred plasma torches

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 134-140

  Bianchini, R C ^a   Favalli, R C ^a   Pimenta, M M ^a   Szente, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

NON-TRANSFERRED PLASMA TORCHES;

PLASMA TORCHES;

EID: 0033640139     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/33/2/307     Document Type: Article

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