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Voltage-current characteristics of a cylindrical langmuir probe in a slowly moving plasma

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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, No. 2, pp. 3–10, March–April, 1993.

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Egorova, Z.M., Kashevarov, A.V. Voltage-current characteristics of a cylindrical langmuir probe in a slowly moving plasma. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 34, 155–160 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00852505

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