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Aiken TT, Boyd ID. State-resolved modeling of electronic excitation in weakly ionized oxygen mixtures. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:045203. [PMID: 38755859 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.045203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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Electronic excitation and ionization in oxygen-argon mixtures are analyzed using a three-temperature electronic state-resolved model and evaluated using recent experimental data from reflected shock experiments. A detailed description of the model formulation and parameter selection is provided. Excellent agreement is obtained between model predictions and experimental measurements of O_{2} number density during dissociation in mixtures of 2%-5% O_{2} dilute in argon. Next, electron number density measurements are leveraged to infer a rate constant for the heavy particle impact excitation of argon, facilitating improved modeling of net ionization and a clearer understanding of the electronic excitation kinetics of oxygen. The electronic state-resolved model is then assessed using measured data for three electronic states of atomic oxygen. The model successfully reproduces the multistage behavior observed in the measured time histories and yields new insights into the multistage behavior that revises previous interpretations. For several experiments, the modeling choices involved in the calculation of escape factors significantly influence the predicted time histories. A global sensitivity analysis considering nearly 300 parameters is then conducted to identify which model parameters most sensitively influence the predicted excited state populations. Excitation of the measured states from the metastable levels and collisional excitation between the three measured states are important across all conditions. The excited state populations demonstrate complex sensitivities involving a large number of collisional and radiative processes, highlighting the importance of adopting a detailed modeling approach when interpreting excited state measurements.
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- Timothy T Aiken
- Ann and H. J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Ann and H. J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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Gibson AR, Donkó Z, Alelyani L, Bischoff L, Hübner G, Bredin J, Doyle S, Korolov I, Niemi K, Mussenbrock T, Hartmann P, Dedrick JP, Schulze J, Gans T, O'Connell D. Disrupting the spatio-temporal symmetry of the electron dynamics in atmospheric pressure plasmas by voltage waveform tailoring. Plasma Sources Sci Technol 2019; 28:01LT01. [PMID: 34776750 PMCID: PMC7611983 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/aaf535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Single frequency, geometrically symmetric Radio-Frequency (rf) driven atmospheric pressure plasmas exhibit temporally and spatially symmetric patterns of electron heating, and consequently, charged particle densities and fluxes. Using a combination of phase-resolved optical emission spectroscopy and kinetic plasma simulations, we demonstrate that tailored voltage waveforms consisting of multiple rf harmonics induce targeted disruption of these symmetries. This confines the electron heating to small regions of time and space and enables the electron energy distribution function to be tailored.
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- Andrew R Gibson
- Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1121 Budapest, Konkoly-Thege Miklós str. 29-33, Hungary
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- York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
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- York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
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- York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Electrodynamics and Physical Electronics Group, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1121 Budapest, Konkoly-Thege Miklós str. 29-33, Hungary
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- York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, United States of America
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- York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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Desjardins E, Laurent M, Durocher-Jean A, Laroche G, Gherardi N, Naudé N, Stafford L. Time-resolved study of the electron temperature and number density of argon metastable atoms in argon-based dielectric barrier discharges. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/aaa5d9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Gorchakov S, Loffhagen D, Uhrlandt D. Role of excited atoms in decaying low-pressure argon plasma. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2006; 74:066401. [PMID: 17280153 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.74.066401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2006] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The influence of the kinetics of excited atoms on the characteristics of an inductively coupled plasma in argon during the early afterglow is studied. A self-consistent model including the nonlocal approach for the kinetic treatment of the electrons is applied. Parameters of both the steady state of the rf discharge and the decay phase are presented. Results for the steady-state densities of excited atoms as well as temporal evolutions of the wall potential and mean energy of electrons are discussed in comparison with experimental data available from the literature. The ionization kinetics of the electrons, the electron power balance, and the main kinetic pathways for excited argon atoms are analyzed in the pressure range between 0.5 and 133 Pa . In particular, a significant influence of the excited atoms on the plasma behavior in steady state and during the afterglow is found.
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- Sergey Gorchakov
- INP Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Strasse 19, Greifswald 17489, Germany.
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