Nonthermal ignition of premixed hydrocarbon-air flows by nonequilibrium radio frequency plasma

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 583-590

  Chintala, Naveen ^a,b   Meyer, Rod ^a,b   Hicks, Adam ^a,b   Bao, Ainan ^a,b   William Rich, J ^a,b   Lempert, Walter R ^a,b   Adamovich, Igor V ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State Universiw   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; DIFFUSION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROCARBONS; IGNITION; MIXTURES; PLASMAS;

AUTOIGNITION TEMPERATURE; HYDROCARBON-AIR FLOWS; NONTHERMAL IGNITION; PRIMARY RADICALS;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 23244432869     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.10865     Document Type: Article

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