Charging of fractal dust agglomerates in a plasma environment

PPPS-2007 - Pulsed Power Plasma Science 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1577-1580

  Matthews, L S ^a   Hyde, T W ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE STRUCTURES; CHARGING CURRENT; COAGULATION PROCESS; COAGULATION RATE; DUST CLOUDS; DUST GRAINS; FRACTAL AGGREGATE; ION TRAJECTORIES; IRREGULAR STRUCTURES; LINE-OF-SIGHT; ORBITAL MOTION LIMITEDS; PLASMA ENVIRONMENTS; PRELIMINARY MODEL; TOTAL CHARGE;

AGGLOMERATION; COAGULATION; DUST; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FRACTAL DIMENSION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PLASMAS;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 70350625044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PPPS.2007.4652489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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