Corona discharges in atmospheric air between a wire and two plates

Philippe Bérard; Deanna A. Lacoste; Christophe O. Laux

doi:10.1109/TPS.2011.2162854

Corona discharges in atmospheric air between a wire and two plates

Philippe Bérard^*, Deanna A. Lacoste, Christophe O. Laux

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Abstract

The corona discharge obtained in atmospheric air between a wire and two plates is presented. For the configuration studied and the voltage applied, the current is steady for the positive corona and exhibits Trichel pulses in the negative corona. The positive corona produces a homogeneous blue halo around the wire, whereas the negative discharge produces evenly spaced spots on the wire surface. We verified the analytic prediction that the ionic wind varies as the square root of the mean current for both the positive and negative polarities. The measured ionic wind produced by the positive corona is higher than for the negative corona. We propose an explanation for the difference of velocity between polarities.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5991972
Pages (from-to)	2248-2249
Number of pages	2
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume	39
Issue number	11 PART 1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2011.2162854
State	Published - Nov 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Atmospheric-pressure plasmas
corona
electrohydrodynamics
glow discharges
plasma measurements

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Condensed Matter Physics

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Corona discharges in atmospheric air between a wire and two plates

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