Plasma-assisted ignition and deflagration-to-detonation transition

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1960, 2012, Pages 740-773

  Starikovskiy, Andrey ^a   Aleksandrov, Nickolay ^b   Rakitin, Aleksandr ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Combustion; Detonation; Electric field; Excitation; Nanosecond discharge; Plasma

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED GAS; COMBUSTION; DENSITY OF GASES; DETONATION; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC IGNITION; ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS; GAS TURBINES; IMPACT IONIZATION; MACH NUMBER; MOLECULES; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMAS;

ACTIVE PARTICLES; ACTIVE SPECIES; COLLISIONAL QUENCHING; DEFLAGRATION TO DETONATION TRANSITION; DEPOSITED ENERGY; DETONATION INITIATION; DISCHARGE CHANNEL; DISCHARGE CURRENTS; DISCHARGE ENERGY; DISCHARGE PLASMA; DISCHARGE PROCESS; DOMINANT MECHANISM; ELECTRIC PULSE; ELECTRON IMPACT DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON-IMPACT EXCITATION; GAS NUMBER DENSITY; GAS PARAMETERS; GAS TEMPERATURE; GRADIENT MECHANISM; HIGH POWER DENSITY; HIGH-VOLTAGES; INTERNAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; LOW TEMPERATURES; NANOSECOND DISCHARGE; NEUTRAL ATOMS; NONEQUILIBRIUM PLASMAS; PISTON ENGINES; PLASMA CHANNEL; PLASMA-ASSISTED IGNITION; PULSE DISCHARGE; PULSED DETONATION ENGINE; RAMJETS; STREAMER INITIATION; TRANSIENT DISCHARGES; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRA-LEAN;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 84856558624     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0344     Document Type: Article

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