Experimental investigations of the anode boundary layer in high intensity arcs with cross flow

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2764-2774

  Yang, G ^a   Cronin, P ^a,b   Heberlein, J V ^a   Pfender, E ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Datacard Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS FLOW; HIGH SPEED CAMERA; LATERAL GAS FLOWS (LGFS); SEGMENTED ANODE;

ARGON; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ANODES;

EID: 33745305552     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/39/13/020     Document Type: Article

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