A technology for automatically creating and adding sound to interactive CG animations of spark discharges in an efficient way has been developed. In the procedure proposed in this paper, the user inputs the electric charge distribution, boundary conditions and other parameters affecting the initiation of electric discharges in virtual space. The animation of the discharge is then created by gen...

The aim of this research is to study the influence of using ethanol-gasoline fuel blends on spark ignition engine performance characteristics and compare the obtained results with those using base gasoline. An electric generator operated by a SI (spark ignition, four stroke, single cylinder, air cooled) engine was used for conducting this study. The tested fuels were gasoline (E0) and gasoline-...

Ignition of Nanocomposite Thermites by Electric Spark and Shock Wave Report Title Nanocomposite 8Al ·MoO3 thermite particles were prepared using arrested reactive milling and ignited using two experimental techniques. In spark ignition, a monolayer of powder was placed on a conductive substrate and heated in air by a pulsed electrostatic discharge. In shock ignition, an individual particle was ...

An optical breakdown caused by a nanosecond laser beam focused into a gaseous medium forms a laser spark in the given gaseous environment. The most likely processes triggered by the spark are those of radiation chemistry forming radicals and more complex molecules from originally simple gas components. Owing to its high energy density, the laser spark is an ideal instrument to simulate the ener...

Electrical heating of the graphite die and punch assembly is a unique feature of the spark plasma sintering (SPS) process. The high currents needed to heat the die, despite its low resistance, can produce an electric field across the ceramic specimens that may be enough to induce field assisted sintering. Despite the large number of publications of SPS, the electric field intensity has not been...

A laser spark formed by the focused beam of a ns high energy laser in a gas filled interaction chamber can mimic energetic events in the early Earth atmosphere, which are thought to be instrumental in the synthesis of simple chemical compounds, such as some amino acides, [1, 2], which later might have participated in more complex organic syntheses leading to the origin of terrestrial life. Some...