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Plasma Investigations
1991. V. 29. № 1. P. 21–29
Sinkevich O.A., Sosnin V.E.
Traveling ionization front in a non-self-maintained high-pressure volume microwave discharge
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A model of quasistationary spatially nonuniform structures is proposed on the basis of the nonlinear system of equations of hydrodynamics, describing a vibrationally and translationally nonequilibrium plasma in a microwave field. Qualitative investigation of the system showed that the following autowave solutions exist: stable solutions of the type “traveling front” and unstable autosoliton solutions. The proposed method for calculating the eigenvalue in the problem of a traveling front made it possible to obtain a simple analytical expression for the propagating velocity of the ionization front as a function of the parameters of the field and the medium. The obtained dependence is compared with the experimental data.
Article reference:
Sinkevich O.A., Sosnin V.E. Traveling ionization front in a non-self-maintained high-pressure volume microwave discharge, High Temp., 1991. V. 29. № 1. P. 21