On the use of Langmuir probes for the diagnosis of atmospheric thermal plasmas

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1431-1442

  Fang, Michael T C ^a   Zhang, Jin Ling ^a   Yan, Jiu Dun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric thermal plasma; Computational investigation; Langmuir probe; Thermal and fluid dynamic disturbances

Indexed keywords

ARGON; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FLUID DYNAMICS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA PROBES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMAL PLASMAS; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; FLUID DYNAMIC DISTURBANCES; LANGMUIR PROBES; THERMAL DYNAMIC DISTURBANCES;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 27644473359     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.852444     Document Type: Article

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