The wealth of high quality data now available on the M87 jet inspired us to carry out a detailed analysis of the plasma physical conditions in the jet. In a companion paper (Lobanov, Hardee & Eilek, this proceedings) we identify a double-helix structure within the jet, and apply Kelvin-Helmholtz stability analysis to determine the physical state of the jet plasma. In this paper we treat the jet...

An account is presented of the work done in the USSR on the generation of thermal plasma, plasma melting, and plasma jet processes. The various methods of plasma generation are reviewed, such as arc plasma generators and high frequency (HF) plasma generators including HF-induction plasmatrons, HF-capacity plasmatrons and HF-flame plasmatrons. Plasma melting techniques covered include plasma-arc...

The ambient air is entrained intensively into atmospheric pressure thermal plasma jets. A system for shielding plasma jet has been used to improve jet characteristics and reduce oxygen content. Different gases have been applied as a shroud gas – argon, acetylene, methane, mixtures of acetylene-nitrogen and hydrogen-nitrogen. All shroud gases used in experiments affected plasma jet making the pr...

In this letter we suggest a new approach to the physical principles for hypercumulative plasma jet formation. This new approach leads to several new results which are of fundamental importance. The simulation results of hypercumulative plasma jet are discussed. It has been shown that the increase of the plasma jet speed in the suggested configuration is 25-30% and the increase of jet pulse is m...

Atmospheric pressure single electrode argon /oxygen plasma jet has been generated between a high-voltage electrode and the surrounding room air for treating thermally sensitive materials is reported. The discharge has been characterized by electrical and optical emission spectroscopic technique. The microplasma jet device operated by an electrical power less than 10 W exhibited a long plasma je...

An experimental study of the physical processes in a thin plasma jet produced by the pulsed discharges in the capillary with evaporated wall is described. The losses in mass from capillary wall as well as the transferred charge are accurately measured. The velocity of plasma jet propagation is measured, too. The current structure in plasma is studied. It is proved that a thin plasma jet can be ...

Decays of individual rovibronic levels of trans-glyoxal in its first excited singlet state are investigated in supersonic-jet conditions. Several rotational levels display oscillatory decay from coherent excitation of superposition of singlet and triplet states. Analysis yields a lower bound for the state-dependent coupling matrix elements yST50.08– 62 MHz for the S1 – T1 interaction. These mat...

We describe an experiment to form and characterize a section of a spherically imploding plasma liner by merging six supersonic plasma jets launched by newly designed contouredgap coaxial plasma guns. This experiment is a prelude to forming a fully spherical imploding plasma liner using many dozens of plasma guns, as a standoff driver for plasma-jet-driven magnetoinertial fusion. The objectives ...

A plasma jet produced in water using a submerged ac excited electrode in a coaxial dielectric barrier discharge configuration was studied. Plasma jet formation was found to occur only while the source was submerged. Plasma jet operation was characterized with and without gas flow. It was found that over 60% of the discharge power was deposited into the water and did not vary appreciably with ex...