Nanosecond pulsed discharge in water vapor

Albina A. Tropina, Mikhail N. Shneider, Richard B. Miles

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Abstract

We considered plasma decay in pure water vapor at high temperatures. The conductivity decay in a pure water vapor was significantly slower compared with the plasma decay in the mixture of water vapor with argon leading the 50 % conductivity decrease at the microsecond time scale. The effect of the depopulation of the tail of the electron energy distribution function (EEDF) at the ionization levels higher than 10-4 was observed and it was shown that it causes the increase of the vibrational excitation rates at the reduced electric field around 30 Td.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
PublisherAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
Pages1-10
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781624106095
StatePublished - 2021
EventAIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Jan 11 2021Jan 15 2021

Publication series

NameAIAA Scitech 2021 Forum

Conference

ConferenceAIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period1/11/211/15/21

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Aerospace Engineering

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