Experimental investigation of effects of airflows on plasma-assisted combustion actuator characteristics

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/24/4/045101

Abstract The effects of the airflow on plasma-assisted combustion actuator (PACA) characteristics are studied in detail. The plasma is characterized electrically, as well as optically with a spectrometer. Our results show that the airflow has an obvious influence on the PACA characteristics. The breakdown voltage and vibrational temperature decrease, while the discharge power increases compared with the stationary airflow. The memory effect of metastable state species and the transportation characteristics of charged particles in microdischarge channel are the dominant causes for the variations of the breakdown voltage and discharge power, respectively, and the vibrational temperature calculated in this work can describe the electron energy of the dielectric barrier discharge plasma in PACA. These results offer new perspectives for the use of PACA in plasma-assisted combustion.

Keywords: plasma-assisted combustion actuator breakdown voltage discharge power vibrational temperature

Received: 03 September 2014
Revised: 29 October 2014
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PACS:	51.50.+v	(Electrical properties)
	52.77.-j	(Plasma applications)
	52.70.-m	(Plasma diagnostic techniques and instrumentation)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51436008, 50776100, and 51106179).

Corresponding Authors: Liu Xing-Jian
E-mail: lxjkgd@163.com

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Liu Xing-Jian (刘兴建), He Li-Ming (何立明), Yu Jin-Lu (于锦禄), Zhang Hua-Lei (张华磊) Experimental investigation of effects of airflows on plasma-assisted combustion actuator characteristics 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 045101

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