The physics of streamer discharge phenomena

S Nijdam, J Teunissen, U Ebert - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review we describe a transient type of gas discharge which is commonly called a
streamer discharge, as well as a few related phenomena in pulsed discharges. Streamers …

Relaxation of electronic excitation in nitrogen/oxygen and fuel/air mixtures: fast gas heating in plasma-assisted ignition and flame stabilization

NA Popov, SM Starikovskaia - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Fast gas heating (FGH) is an abrupt increase in gas temperature in non-equilibrium low-
temperature plasma due to relaxation of electronically excited states of atoms and …

Recent advances in electrohydrodynamic pumps operated by ionic winds: a review

MJ Johnson, DB Go - Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
An ionic or electric wind is a bulk air movement induced by electrohydrodynamic (EHD)
phenomena in a gas discharge. Because they are silent, low power, respond rapidly, and …

Atmospheric-pressure pulsed plasma actuators for flow control: shock wave and vortex characteristics

C Zhang, B Huang, Z Luo, X Che, P Yan… - … sources science and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Pulsed plasma actuators are used for an active flow control application since the 2000s. In
this paper, we discuss shock wave and vortex characteristics in pulsed plasma actuators …

Nanosecond surface dielectric barrier discharge in atmospheric pressure air: I. measurements and 2D modeling of morphology, propagation and hydrodynamic …

Y Zhu, S Shcherbanev, B Baron… - … Sources Science and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A parallel 2D code for modeling nanosecond surface dielectric barrier discharge (nSDBD),
combining a discharge description, detailed kinetics and hydrodynamics, is developed and …

Electric field distribution in a surface plasma flow actuator powered by ns discharge pulse trains

MS Simeni, Y Tang, K Frederickson… - … Sources Science and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Electric field vector components in a nanosecond pulse, surface dialectric barrier discharge
plasma actuator are measured by picosecond second harmonic generation, for positive …

Fast gas heating of nanosecond pulsed surface dielectric barrier discharge: spatial distribution and fractional contribution from kinetics

Y Zhu, S Starikovskaia - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The effect of heat release in reactions with charged and electronically excited species, or so-
called fast gas heating (FGH), in nanosecond surface dielectric barrier discharge (nSDBD) …

Femtosecond, two-photon-absorption, laser-induced-fluorescence (fs-TALIF) imaging of atomic hydrogen and oxygen in non-equilibrium plasmas

JB Schmidt, S Roy, WD Kulatilaka… - Journal of Physics D …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Femtosecond, two-photon-absorption laser-induced fluorescence (fs-TALIF) is employed to
measure space-and time-resolved distributions of atomic hydrogen and oxygen in moderate …

Filamentary nanosecond surface dielectric barrier discharge. Plasma properties in the filaments

SA Shcherbanev, C Ding… - Plasma Sources …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Streamer-to-filament transition is a general feature of nanosecond discharges at elevated
pressure. The transition is observed in different discharges by different groups: in the …

Gasdynamic flow control by ultrafast local heating in a strongly nonequilibrium pulsed plasma

AY Starikovskiy, NL Aleksandrov - Plasma Physics Reports, 2021 - Springer
The paper presents a review of modern works on gasdynamic flow control using a highly
nonequilibrium pulsed plasma. The main attention is paid to the effects based on ultrafast …