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Hypergravity effects on glide arc plasma

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The behaviour of a special type of electric discharge – the gliding arc plasma – has been investigated in hypergravity (1g–18g) using the Large Diameter Centrifuge (LDC) at ESA/ESTEC. The discharge voltage and current together with the videosignal from a fast camera have been recorded during the experiment. The gliding of the arc is governed by hot gas buoyancy and by consequence, gravity. Increasing the centrifugal acceleration makes the glide arc movement substantially faster. Whereas at 1g the discharge was stationary, at 6g it glided with 7 Hz frequency and at 18g the gliding frequency was 11 Hz. We describe a simple model for the glide arc movement assuming low gas flow velocities, which is compared to our experimental results.

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  1. Department of Physical Electronics, Masaryk University, Kotlřáská 2, 61137, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jiří Šperka, Pavel Souček & Vít Kudrle

  2. The Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Kotlřáská 2, 61137, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jiří Šperka

  3. Dutch Experiment Support Center (DESC), ACTA-VU-University and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jack J. W. A. Van Loon

  4. European Space Agency (ESA), ESTEC, TEC-MMG, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    Jack J. W. A. Van Loon, Alan Dowson, Christian Schwarz & Jutta Krause

  5. Faculty of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Gerrit Kroesen

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Šperka, J., Souček, P., Van Loon, J.J.W.A. et al. Hypergravity effects on glide arc plasma. Eur. Phys. J. D 67, 261 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2013-40408-7

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