Mohamed Bourham Author
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Plasma sciences
Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7909, USA
Plasma sciences evolved over decades, moving from the generation of plasmas under vacuum to the generation of atmospheric and high-pressure plasmas. With the increase in our understanding of plasma mechanisms and regimes has come an increase in interest of the entire spectrum of plasmas, their formation conditions, and applications unique to each plasma regime.
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Author(s): Nouf AlMousa, Leigh Winfrey, John Gilligan, Mohamed Bourham
Radiative Heat Transport through Vapor Plasma for Fusion Heat Flux Studies and Electrothermal Plasma Sources Applications
High heat fluxes of up to 100 GW/m2 and greater over a discharge period of 100 to 1000 μs can be generated from electrothermal (ET) plasma sources from the confined arc discharge. Sources with input energy of 10 kJ in a miniature capillary (4 mm radius and 9 cm length) are capable of producing 88.33 GW/m2 heat flux inside the capillary, higher heat fluxes can be generated for higher input energies. Such high heat fluxes are adequate to simulate the energy deposition during hard disruptions in future fusion tokamak reactors, which result in erosion an... view moreĀ»