Ionization in strong electric fields and dynamics of nanosecond-pulse plasmas

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 6051-6074

  Macheret, Sergey O ^a,b   Shneider, Mikhail N ^a,b   Murray, Robert C ^a   Miles, Richard B ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-VOLTAGE PULSES; IONIZATION EFFICIENCY; PLASMA DYNAMICS;

CATHODES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MICROWAVES; PLASMA THEORY; SECONDARY EMISSION;

IONIZATION;

EID: 30744477993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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