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Computer Physics Communications
Volume 177, Issues 1-2, July 2007, Pages 76-77
Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Physics 2006 - CCP 2006, Conference on Computational Physics 2006
 
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The propagation of a microwave in an atmospheric pressure plasma layer: one- and two-dimensional numerical solutions

Xi-Wei HuCorresponding Author Contact Information, a, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Zhong-He Jianga, Shu Zhanga and Minghai Liua

aCollege of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China

Available online 1 March 2007.

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Abstract

The propagation of a microwave in an atmospheric pressure plasma (APP) layer is described numerically with an integral–differential wave equation in one dimension (normal incident) case and with the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method in two dimension (oblique incident) case. When the microwave passes through the APP layer, its amplitude and phase of the wave electric field are obviously modulated by both the electron density and the collisions between the electrons and neutrals. The dependencies of the passed wave behaviors (i.e. the phase shift, the reflectivity, the transmissivity and absorptivity) on the APP layer characteristics (width, electron density, and collision frequency) and microwave characteristics (incident angle and polarization) are presented. The Appleton's Equation can be derived from the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin (WKB) solution of the integral–differential wave equation and is compared with the one-dimensional numerical solution.

Keywords: Attenuation of microwave; Atmospheric pressure plasmas

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. One dimension case
3. Two dimension case
4. Summary
Acknowledgements
References

Computer Physics Communications
Volume 177, Issues 1-2, July 2007, Pages 76-77
Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Physics 2006 - CCP 2006, Conference on Computational Physics 2006
 
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