Pulsed nanosecond dielectric barrier discharge in nitrogen at atmospheric pressure

Small power devices are of strong interest as many electronics are made more compact. Those portable power sources are widely used in aerospace applications such as small UAVs and satellite thrusters. Typically, these portable devices rely on batteries, but small power generators based on hydrocarbon fuel micro-combustors have much higher energy densities. However, flame instability and extinction are difficult to avoid at small scales. Because of the high surface to volume ratio, significant heat loss and radical quenching at the walls take place. To address this challenge, plasma has shown capabilities in facilitating combustion through thermal, kinetic and transport effects. In this work, a preliminary study of plasma discharge at atmospheric pressure is conducted as the first step to understand Plasma-Assisted Combustion (PAC) at micro scales.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Zhang, Yiyun(Aerospace scientist)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Carmen Guerra-Garcia.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127118

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127118