Gas temperature equation in a high-frequency argon plasma column at low pressures

Using a collisional-radiative model and taking into account an energy balance equation in a surface-wave-produced and -sustained argon plasma, it is possible to obtain the dependence of the gas temperature on the plasma parameters. If only heat conduction and radiative losses are considered for the neutral system, as well as the interaction with the electrons, the plasma parameters that determine the gas temperature will be the elastic absorbed power per electron and the electron number density. In a first approximation the axial dependence of the neutral gas temperature can be considered lineal with the product of these two parameters.

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