Introduction Plasmas with dust grains are of interest both for the cosmic space as well as for the laboratory plasmas. Examples include cometary environments, planetary rings, the interstellar medium, the Earth’s and other planets magnetospheres [1]. Dust has been found to be a determinant component of rarefied plasmas used in the microelectronic processing industry [2], and it may also be pres...

Structure formation and wave phenomena in moderately coupled dusty plasmas." PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) thesis, ABSTRACT Dusty plasmas, defined as plasmas of ions, electrons, neutrals, and charged micron to sub-micron dust particles, support a rich diversity of physical states. These states (ranging from solids to liquids to gas) are determined by the ratio of the Coulomb potential energy betwe...

A retrospective analysis was conducted on air samples that were collected in 2005 under the Global Atmospheric Passive Sampling (GAPS) Network around the time period when the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants came into force. Results are presented for several new flame retardants, including hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), which was recently listed under the Convention (2013)....

This paper highlights some of the history of laboratory experiments in dusty plasmas, beginning with an early unexpected discovery of Langmuir. Although there was a great deal of theoretical work on dusty plasmas long before dedicated laboratory experiments were initiated, the experimental work is catching−up and new discoveries in the laboratory are motivating further theoretical work.

In previous studies, we examined turbulence-flame interactions in carbonburning thermonuclear flames in Type Ia supernovae. In this study, we consider turbulence-flame interactions in the trailing oxygen flames. The two aims of the paper are to examine the response of the inductive oxygen flame to intense levels of turbulence, and to explore the possibility of transition to detonation in the ox...

A computational study has been conducted to determine the critical conditions for the transition from localized flame ignition and propagation to the establishment of a flame ball. Lean H2/air mixtures are investigated using a time-dependent, spherically symmetric code with detailed chemistry, transport, and radiation submodels. Results show that outwardly propagating spherical flames can be ig...

As the data from space missions and laboratories improve, a research domain combining plasmas and charged dust is gaining in prominence. Our solar system provides many natural laboratories such as planetary rings, comet comae and tails, ejecta clouds around moons and asteroids, and Earth’s noctilucent clouds for which to closely study plasma-embedded cosmic dust. One natural laboratory to study...

In this paper we study the behavior of a premixed turbulent methane flame in three dimensions using numerical simulation. The simulations are performed using an adaptive time-dependent low Mach number combustion algorithm based on a second-order projection formulation that conserves both species mass and total enthalpy. The species and enthalpy equations are treated using an operator-split appr...