Data reduction analysis for cylindrical, double langmuir probes operating in collisionless to collisional, quiescent plasmas

41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Menart, J ^a   Shang, J ^a  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; COLLISIONLESS PLASMAS; CURVE FITTING; DATA REDUCTION; LANGMUIR PROBES;

COLLISIONLESS; DOUBLE PROBE; HARMONIC MEAN; IV CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; OPERATING REGIMES; QUIESCENT PLASMAS; SINGLE PROBE;

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS;

EID: 85086493699     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2003-136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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