Fast gas heating in nitrogenoxygen discharge plasma: II. Energy exchange in the afterglow of a volume nanosecond discharge at moderate pressures

International audiencegas heating in nitrogen-oxygen discharge plasma. II. Energy exchange in the afterglow of a volume nanosecond discharge at moderate pressures. Abstract. The process of fast gas heating in air in the near afterglow of a pulsed nanosecond spatially uniform discharge has been investigated experimentally and numerically at moderate (3−9 mbar) pressures and high (200−400 Td) reduced electric fields. The temporal behavior of discharge current, deposited energy, electric field and temperature were measured. The role of processes with participation of excited and charged species was analyzed. It was shown that under the considered conditions the main energy release takes place in reactions of nitrogen and oxygen dissociation by electron impact and quenching of electronically excited nitrogen molecules, such as N 2 (A 3 Σ + u, B 3 Π g, C 3 Π u, a ' 1 Σ − u) by oxygen and quenching of excited O(1 D) atoms by N 2. It was shown that about 24% of the discharge energy goes to fast gas heating during first tens of microseconds after the discharge

Space and time analysis of the nanosecond scale discharges in atmospheric pressure air: II. Energy transfers during the post-discharge

WOS:000332761800006International audienceThe better understanding of nanosecond scale discharges under atmospheric pressure and the validation of plasmachemical models, require an increasing need for reliable data. This paper presents, in the first time to our knowledge, spatiotemporal description of the gas number densities of major species including O atoms, the hydrodynamic expansion and the relative distribution of the energy deposited in the specific molecular modes of N-2(X) and O-2(X) following a nanosecond pulsed air discharge at atmospheric pressure. These data are obtained from phase-locked average profiles of the ground states of N-2 and O-2 probed by spontaneous Raman scattering. The results complete part I of this investigation dedicated to the gas temperature and the vibrational distribution function of N-2 and O-2 and show that half of the total energy deposited is loaded on the vibrational mode (48% for N-2 and 2% for O-2). The energy released into fast gas heating represents 19% of the energy deposited. This fast gas heating (up to 1000 K) observed in tens of nanoseconds after the current rise leads to a shock wave propagation shown with the pressure measurements. These processes combined with vibration-vibration/translation energy transfers and convective transports induced by the shock wave propagation are spatiotemporally studied. The experimental data of this study provide space and time database for the validation of plasmachemical models of nanosecond pulsed discharges in atmospheric pressure air