Voltage and pressure scaling of streamer dynamics in a helium plasma jet with N2 co-flow
Abstract
Positive polarity applied voltage and gas pressure dependent scaling of cathode directed streamer propagation properties in helium gas flow guided capillary dielectric barrier discharge have been quantified from streamer velocity, streamer current, and streamer optical diameter measurements. All measurements of the non-stochastic streamer properties have been performed in a variable gas pressure glass cell with N2 co-flow and under self-consistent Poisson electric field dominated conditions to permit data comparison with 2-D streamer dynamics models in air/nitrogen. The streamer optical diameter was found to be nearly independent of both gas pressures, from 170 Torr up to 760 Torr, and also for applied voltages from 6 to 11 kV at 520 Torr. The streamer velocity was found to increase quadratically with increased applied voltage. These observed differences in the 2-D scaling properties of ionization wave sustained cathode directed streamer propagation in helium flow channel with N2 annular co-flow compared to the streamer propagation in air or nitrogen have been shown to be caused by the remnant ionization distribution due to large differences in the dissociative recombination rates of He2+ versus N4+ ions, for this 5 kHz repetition rate applied voltage pulse generated streamers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2014
- Source ID
- 10.1063/1.4892968
Entities
People
- Biswa. N. Ganguly
- James D. Scofield
- Robert Leiweke
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Air Force Research Laboratory