Initial transient stage of pin-to-pin nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges in air

Wang, Xingxing; Patel, Adam; Shashurin, Alexey

doi:10.1063/5.0093794

Initial transient stage of pin-to-pin nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges in air

Journal Article · Tue Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Journal of Applied Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0093794· OSTI ID:1979092

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Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

In this work, evolution of parameters of nanosecond repetitively pulsed (NRP) discharges in pin-to-pin configuration in air was studied during the transient stage of initial 20 discharge pulses. Gas and plasma parameters in the discharge gap were measured using coherent microwave scattering, optical emission spectroscopy, and laser Rayleigh scattering for NRP discharges at repetition frequencies of 1, 10, and 100 kHz. Memory effects (when perturbations induced by the previous discharge pulse would not decay fully until the subsequent pulse) were detected for the repetition frequencies of 10 and 100 kHz. For 10 kHz NRP discharge, the discharge parameters experienced significant change after the first pulse and continued to substantially fluctuate between subsequent pulses due to rapid evolution of gas density and temperature during the 100 μs inter-pulse time caused by intense redistribution of the flow field in the gap on that time scale. For 100 kHz NRP discharge, the discharge pulse parameters reached a new steady-state at about five pulses after initiation. Further, this new steady-state was associated with well-reproducible parameters between the discharge pulses and substantial reduction in breakdown voltage, discharge pulse energy, and electron number density in comparison to the first discharge pulse. For repetition frequencies 1–100 kHz considered in this work, the memory effects can be likely attributed to the reduction in gas number density and increase in the gas temperature that cannot fully recover to ambient conditions before subsequent discharge pulses.

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Research Organization:: Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018156

OSTI ID:: 1979092

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1970581

Journal Information:: Journal of Applied Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Applied Physics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 132; ISSN 0021-8979

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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