Plasma Assisted Ignition and Combustion at Low Initial Gas Temperatures: Development of Kinetic Mechanism

Abstract

The Final Technical Report summarizes the results of work performed with partial financial support of AOARD AFOSR during a period May 1, 2013 April 30, 2016. The three first chapters are devoted to the study of the nanosecond capillary discharge in the form of the fast ionization wave (FIW). The fourth chapter describes physics of a nanosecond surface dielectric barrier discharge (SDBD) at ambient gas temperature and highpressures (1-6 bar) in air. Details about the filamentation and about morphology of the surface streamers are given in the Chapter 5. Chapter 6 presents a preliminary numerical analysis of the ignition by a nanosecond discharge. Chapter 7 presents the high pressure high temperature reactor built recently at Laboratory for Plasma Physics. Chapter 8 describes the results of analysis of role of O(1D) in plasmaassisted combustionincluding gas mixtures with hydrocarbons. The last, 9th Chapter contains a brief review of state of the art in plasma assisted ignition and combustion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 05, 2016
Accession Number
AD1019880

Entities

People

  • Svetlana Starikovskaya

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Chambers
  • Dissociation
  • Electrons
  • Energy Transfer
  • Ignition Lag
  • Ionization
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Induced Fluorescence
  • Measurement
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Spectroscopy
  • Voltage
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Educational Psychology
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.