Theory of pulsed breakdown of dense gases and optimization of the voltage waveform

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36 PART 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-139

  Nikandrov, Dmitry S ^a   Tsendin, Lev D ^a   Kolobov, Vladimir I ^b   Arslanbekov, Robert R ^b  

^a PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical model; Dense gases; Pulsed breakdown; Voltage optimization

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMAS; SCALING LAWS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DENSE GASES; PULSED BREAKDOWN; VOLTAGE WAVEFORM;

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF GASES;

EID: 40549103134     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2007.913931     Document Type: Article

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