Controlling nanosecond-scale discharges
Our primary scientific topics are fast, transient discharges and the inception stages of gas discharges. Such discharges are always very far from equilibrium which makes them challenging to understand. This interest has started with one example of such discharges, namely streamer discharges, but in recent years has expanded to a larger range of extreme non-equilibrium discharges.
Still, streamer discharges our scientific focal point. Streamer discharges are the first stages of discharges like sparks and arcs. They can pierce through regions with relatively low electric field and have tree-like shapes. In nature they occur as the first stage of lightning and as so-called sprites and other discharges high above thunderclouds.
We are not limited to one application of streamers and related non-equilibrium discharges. The diversity of applications of such discharges makes this field of science interesting and ensures future-proof funding possibilities, both from fundamental scientific viewpoint as from the utilization viewpoint.
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Recent Publications
Our most recent peer reviewed publications
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Plasma-assisted ignition-stabilized combustion (PAISC)
Combustion and Flame (2024) -
Development of a Technique For Quantitative and Localized Charge Deposition on Dielectric Surfaces
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How pulse energy affects ignition efficiency of DBD plasma-assisted combustion
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (2024) -
Quantitative modeling of streamer discharge branching in air
Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2023) -
On pulse-to-pulse coupling in low-temperature filamentary plasma-assisted ignition in methane-air flows
Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2023)
Contact
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Visiting address
Department of Applied PhysicsP.O. Box 5135600MB EindhovenNetherlands -
Visiting address
Department of Applied PhysicsP.O. Box 5135600MB EindhovenNetherlands -
Postal address
Flux, 3.108Groene Loper5612 AP EindhovenNetherlands -
Postal address
Flux, 3.108Groene Loper5612 AP EindhovenNetherlands -
Teamleads.nijdam@ tue.nl