Carlos M. Ferreira

TL;DR: Schram et al. as discussed by the authors presented a useful contribution to the basic phenomena in nitrogen, oxygen and other atmospheric gases, which includes basic introductory chapters on relaxation in translational, rotational, short and vibrational distribution and on the physics of electron excitation and electron distribution functions.

TL;DR: In this article, a self-consistent kinetic model was developed to study dc flowing glow discharges in N/sub 2/O/Sub 2/ mixtures, which includes the calculation of electron energy distribution functions and electron rate coefficients coupled with detailed vibrational kinetics of N/ sub 2/ molecules, chemical kinetics taking into account of neutral, excited and charged species, interaction of N and O atoms at the discharge tube wall, and the thermal balance of the discharge.

TL;DR: In this paper, a kinetic model of low-pressure DC flowing discharges in - mixtures is presented, where the only input parameters are those that can externally be chosen in experiments, such as total gas pressure, radius and length of the discharge tube, discharge current, gas flow rate and initial gas temperature and composition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the probability of losses of N and O atoms on Pyrex walls was determined from a fit of calculated to measured concentrations [O] and [NO] in a low-pressure glow discharge in, for percentage concentrations.

TL;DR: A kinetic model for the low-pressure oxygen positive column is presented and discussed in this article, which is based on the electron Boltzmann equation and the rate balance equations for the dominant heavy-particle species.