Thermal and power characteristics of plasma torch with reverse vortex

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Essiptchouk, A M ^a,b   Charakhovski, L I ^a,b   Filho, G P ^a   MacIel, H S ^a   Otani, Ch ^a   Barros, E A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA   (Brazil)

^b A V LUIKOV HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER INSTITUTE   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; POWER CHARACTERISTIC; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; THERMAL EFFICIENCY;

PLASMA JETS; PLASMA TORCHES;

PLASMAS;

EID: 70249140266     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/42/17/175205     Document Type: Article

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