Title :
Effect of Pulse Rise time on Plasma Plume Propagation Velocity
Author :
Weiwei Gong ; Quanjun Huang ; Zhan Wang ; Yong Yang
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Adv. Electromagn. Eng. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
Atmospheric pressure plasma jets driven by a pulsed dc power supply have several advantages over the traditional jets driven by an ac power supply. However, how the pulse rise time affects the characteristic of the plasma jets is not clearly known. In this paper, the simulation results of a plasma jet driven by pulsed dc voltages with different pulse rise time trise are presented. It shows that, the shorter the pulse rise time trise is, the faster the head of the plasma jet propagates.
Keywords :
dielectric-barrier discharges; plasma diagnostics; plasma jets; plasma sources; ac power supply; atmospheric pressure plasma jets; dielectric barrier discharge; plasma plume propagation velocity; pressure 1 atm; pulse rise time; pulsed dc power supply; pulsed dc voltages; Atmospheric modeling; Helium; Ionization; Mathematical model; Plasma sources; Power supplies; Nonequilibrium plasma; plasma jets; pulse rise time; pulse rise time.;
Journal_Title :
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPS.2014.2323254
