Hypergravity effects on glide arc plasma

@article{1137458,
   author = {Šperka, Jiří and Souček, Pavel and Van Loon, Jack J.W.A. and Dowson, Alan and Schwarz, Christian and Krause, Jutta and Kroesen, Gerrit and Kudrle, Vít},
   article_number = {261},
   doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2013-40408-7},
   keywords = {glide arc; hypergravity},
   language = {eng},
   issn = {1434-6060},
   journal = {The European Physical Journal D},
   title = {Hypergravity effects on glide arc plasma},
   volume = {67},
   year = {2013}
}

TY  - JOUR
ID  - 1137458
AU  - Šperka, Jiří - Souček, Pavel - Van Loon, Jack J.W.A. - Dowson, Alan - Schwarz, Christian - Krause, Jutta - Kroesen, Gerrit - Kudrle, Vít
PY  - 2013
TI  - Hypergravity effects on glide arc plasma
JF  - The European Physical Journal D
VL  - 67
IS  - 261
SP  - 1-9
EP  - 1-9
PB  - Springer
SN  - 14346060
KW  - glide arc
KW  - hypergravity
N2  - The behaviour of a special type of electric discharge – the gliding arc plasma – has been investigated in hypergravity (1g –18g) using the Large Diameter Centrifuge (LDC) at ESA/ESTEC. The discharge voltage and current together with the videosignal from a fast camera have been recorded during the experiment. The gliding of the arc is governed by hot gas buoyancy and by consequence, gravity. Increasing the centrifugal acceleration makes the glide arc movement substantially faster. Whereas at 1g the discharge was stationary, at 6g it glided with 7 Hz frequency and at 18g the gliding frequency was 11 Hz. We describe a simple model for the glide arc movement assuming low gas flow velocities, which is compared to our experimental results.
ER  - 

ŠPERKA, Jiří, Pavel SOUČEK, Jack J.W.A. VAN LOON, Alan DOWSON, Christian SCHWARZ, Jutta KRAUSE, Gerrit KROESEN and Vít KUDRLE. Hypergravity effects on glide arc plasma. \textit{The European Physical Journal D}. Springer, 2013, vol.~67, No~261, p.~1-9. ISSN~1434-6060. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2013-40408-7.