PLASMADYNAMIC STRUCTURE OF ELECTRODE
TORCHES AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE DYNAMICS
OF DEVELOPMENT OF PULSED SURFACE DISCHARGE

V. B. Avramenko

UDC 533.95

An experimental study has been made of the plasmadynamic 
structure of electrode plasma torches and its influence on the dynamics 
of development of a high-current pulsed surface discharge with separated 
torches at atmospheric and low pressures. Much attention has been 
given to the behavior of the discharge with change in experimental 
conditions. Consideration has also been given to the jet properties 
in the outflow of a luminous substance, which manifests itself in 
the structural properties of photoscans. The mechanism of spatial 
"spreading" of the channel of the surface discharge with separated 
torches has been proposed.

Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, 70 F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 2, pp. 
172-177, March-April, 2005. Original article submitted July 
22, 2004.