[1] Ablation of micrometeoroids between 70 and 130 km altitude in the atmosphere creates plasma columns with densities exceeding the ambient ionospheric electron density by many orders of magnitude. Density gradients at the edges of these trails can create ambipolar electric fields with amplitudes in excess of 100 mV/m. These fields combine with diamagnetic drifts to drive electrons at speeds e...

This work derives a drift-kinetic equation—that is, a kinetic equation for guiding-center motion—for a magnetized plasma whose flow velocity is comparable to its thermal speed. Such rapidly flowing plasmas play an increasingly important role in several areas of plasma physics research. For example, they occur in a number of astrophysical phenomena, such as galactic jets; they play a key role in...

the experimental studies of methane conversion to higher hydrocarbons and methanol using a dielectric barrier discharge (dbd) reactor are presented in this article. the process is carried out at ambient atmospheric pressure and temperature. the dbd reactor is stimulated by an alternative voltage of 50 hz and amplitude of max.23kv. the examination of the effect of voltage and flow rates on metha...

in this paper, construction of triplet atmospheric plasma jet using argon, air, oxygen and nitrogen gases is reported. bactericidal effect of the plasma jet is also investigated. to that end, longitudinal geometric configuration for the electrodes was chosen because it would increase the jet length. electrical characteristics, jet length dependencies on the applied voltage and gas flow rate wer...

We evaluate the collisional energy loss of a energetic fermion with mass $M$ propagating through hot QED plasma temperature $T$, including corrections, that is, keeping $m$ constituents plasma, assuming $m \ll T M$. use bare theory to compute contribution hard momentum transfer collisions, and Braaten-Pisarski resummed theory, amended small for low corrections at leading logarithmic accuracy in...

We study effective relaxation time of viscous hydrodynamics of strongly coupled nonconformal gauge theory plasma using gauge theory/string theory correspondence. We compute leading corrections to the conformal plasma relaxation time from the relevant deformations due to dim-2 and dim-3 operators. We discuss in details the relaxation time τeff of N = 2 plasma. For a certain choice of masses this...