Relaxation of electronic excitation in nitrogen/oxygen and fuel/air mixtures: fast gas heating in plasma-assisted ignition and flame stabilization

NA Popov, SM Starikovskaia - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Fast gas heating (FGH) is an abrupt increase in gas temperature in non-equilibrium low-
temperature plasma due to relaxation of electronically excited states of atoms and …

[HTML][HTML] On nanosecond plasma-assisted ammonia combustion: Effects of pulse and mixture properties

M Shahsavari, AA Konnov, A Valera-Medina… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the effects of nanosecond plasma discharges on the combustion characteristics
of ammonia are investigated over a wide range of mixture properties and plasma settings …

Plasma-enhanced catalysis for the upgrading of methane: A review of modelling and simulation methods

PA Maitre, MS Bieniek… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The direct upgrading of methane to higher hydrocarbons via plasma-catalysis has received
particular attention due to the high valorisation potential of the molecule and methane's wide …

Effects of controlled non-equilibrium excitation on H2/O2/He ignition using a hybrid repetitive nanosecond and DC discharge

X Mao, Q Chen, AC Rousso, TY Chen, Y Ju - Combustion and Flame, 2019 - Elsevier
The present work reports on the effects of controlled non-equilibrium excitation of reactant
molecules on low temperature H 2/O 2/He ignition by numerically modeling a hybrid …

Species and temperature measurements of methane oxidation in a nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharge

JK Lefkowitz, P Guo, A Rousso… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Speciation and temperature measurements of methane oxidation during a nanosecond
repetitively pulsed discharge in a low-temperature flow reactor have been performed …

Time-resolved optical emission spectroscopy of nanosecond pulsed discharges in atmospheric-pressure N2 and N2/H2O mixtures

RM Van der Horst, T Verreycken… - Journal of Physics D …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In this contribution, nanosecond pulsed discharges in N 2 and N 2/0.9% H 2 O at
atmospheric pressure (at 300 K) are studied with time-resolved imaging, optical emission …

The role of non-thermal transient plasma for enhanced flame ignition in C2H4–air

D Singleton, SJ Pendleton… - Journal of Physics D …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Transient plasma ignition, involving short ignition pulses (typically 10–50 ns), has been
shown to effectively reduce ignition delays and improve engine performance for a wide …

Measurements and kinetic modeling of energy coupling in volume and surface nanosecond pulse discharges

K Takashima, Z Yin, IV Adamovich - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanosecond pulse discharge plasma imaging, coupled pulse energy measurements, and
kinetic modeling are used to analyze the mechanism of energy coupling in high repetition …

Picosecond CARS measurements of nitrogen vibrational loading and rotational/translational temperature in non-equilibrium discharges

A Montello, Z Yin, D Burnette… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Picosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) is used to study
vibrational energy loading and relaxation kinetics in nitrogen and air ns pulsed non …

Multi-scale modelling of pulsed nanosecond dielectric barrier plasma discharges in plane-to-plane geometry

S Nagaraja, V Yang, I Adamovich - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
An integrated theoretical and numerical framework is developed to study the dynamics of
energy coupling, gas heating and generation of active species by repetitively pulsed …