Nonlocal effects in a bounded afterglow plasma with fast electrons

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 3 PART 2, 2006, Pages 825-833

  Demidov, Vladimi ^a   DeJoseph Jr , Charles ^b   Kudryavtsev, Anatoly ^c  

^a UES INC   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Afterglow plasma; Diffusion cooling; Electron energy distribution function (EEDF); Modeling; Near wall sheath; Stepwise excitation

Indexed keywords

AFTERGLOW PLASMA; ELECTRON ENERGY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (EEDF); MODELING; NEAR-WALL SHEATH; STEPWISE EXCITATION;

ATOMS; COOLING; DIFFUSION; DISSOCIATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON ENERGY ANALYZERS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ION BEAMS; PLASMAS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 33751564414     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.872338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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