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Electrical and thermal structure of the argon arc of a two-jet plasmatron

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The thermal structure and the distribution of the axial electric field strength of the arc of a two-jet plasmatron were investigated experimentally.

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    S. P. Polyakov & V. I. Pechenkin

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 833–837, November, 1982.

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Polyakov, S.P., Pechenkin, V.I. Electrical and thermal structure of the argon arc of a two-jet plasmatron. Journal of Engineering Physics 43, 1293–1296 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00826557

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