Characteristic study of a portable arc microwave plasma torch

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2537-2544

  Kuo, Spencer P ^a   Rubinraut, Maurice ^a   Popovic, Svetozar ^b   Bivolaru, Daniel ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuel injector; Ignition aide; Microwave plasma torch module; Nonequilibrium plasma at atmospheric pressure; Scramjet; Supersonic combustor

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMBUSTORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IGNITION; PLASMA JETS; SUPERSONIC FLOW;

FUEL INJECTOR; MICROWAVE PLASMA-TORCH MODULE; SUPERSONIC COMBUSTOR;

PLASMA TORCHES;

EID: 33947379618     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.884792     Document Type: Article

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