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The Secondary Ionization Wave and Characteristic Map of Surface Discharge Plasma in a Wide Time Scale

Plasma Physics 2020-12-02 v1 Applied Physics

Abstract

Variation of voltage profiles with different time scales leads to the redistribution of deposited energy as well as electro-hydrodynamic forces, while the mechanism and scaling law is still unknown. On the basis of theoretical and numerical analysis, we show that a secondary surface ionization wave forms during the voltage rising slope when electron density decreases to a critical level while the voltage is still rising. A characteristic map of energy and electro-hydrodynamics force in time scales between 1~ns and 0.1~s at atmospheric pressure is proposed, opening the door towards the target--directed design of surface discharges.

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@article{arxiv.2005.09211,
  title  = {The Secondary Ionization Wave and Characteristic Map of Surface Discharge Plasma in a Wide Time Scale},
  author = {Yifei Zhu and Yun Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.09211},
  year   = {2020}
}