Two-temperature chemically-non-equilibrium modeling of argon induction plasmas with diatomic gas

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 49, Issue 25-26, 2006, Pages 4867-4876

  Watanabe, Takayuki ^a   Shigeta, Masaya ^a   Atsuchi, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argon Hydrogen; Argon Oxygen; Induction thermal plasma; Non equilibrium; Numerical modeling; Two temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DISSOCIATION; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES;

COLLISION FREQUENCY; DIATOMIC GAS; INDUCTION THERMAL PLASMA;

PLASMA HEATING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DISSOCIATION; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMA HEATING;

EID: 33750399507     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2006.05.039     Document Type: Article

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