NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE RADIO FREQUENCY NON THERMAL PLASMA TORCH

Different kind of non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma sources have been reported in recent literatures for specific kinds of applications starting from biomedical application to material sciences. Realizing the important of the atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma torch, an atmospheric pressure radio frequency non thermal plasma torch have been studied on the basis of nonlinear global model. The computational results show some interesting effects, like the different behavior of the plasma heating with distance between the electrodes. It is observed that the plasma heating is somehow complex dependence on the electrodes sizes.