Download or read book Mechanisms of Ionizational Nonequilibrium in Air Plasmas written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this MURI program was to discover physical mechanisms for significantly reducing the power budget required to create and sustain large volume atmospheric air plasmas at temperature below 2000K with electron number densities of the order of 10 13 cm -3. The Stanford consortium Experimentally demonstrated the generation of over 10 12 electrons/cm 3 in atmospheric pressure air at 2000K, with an average power of 12 W/cm 3, i.e. 250 times smaller than a DC discharge at 10 12/cm3.