RESEARCH INTERESTS
Physical phenomena in high current electrical discharges, at the electrode surface and in the near electrode plasma. This investigation includes electrode phenomena in vacuum arcs and high current vacuum interrupters, in MHD-generators, magnetically insolated diode, plasma thrusters and accelerators, filtered vacuum arc deposition systems and systems with hot refractory anode vacuum arcs. Laser-matter interaction phenomena. High current wire explosion phenomena. Arc producing nanostructures.
CONSIDERED PROBLEMS
- Theory of electron emission in the vacuum arc cathode spot.
- Theory of nonlinear and three-dimensional heat conductivity processes in a bulk body and in a thin film with a moving and concentrated heat source.
- Theory of heat and plasma particle transfer in the partially ionized multicomponent plasma systems having different particle temperatures.
- Hydrodynamics of ionized gas flow under high density of electrical current.
- Kinetic phenomena in a strongly non-equilibrium region under local substance vaporization.
- Theory of cathode and anode spots in vacuum arcs. Electrode erosion processes. Spot motion in magnetic field, nanosecond phenomena and plasma acceleration mechanism in arcs with current rise >1MA/s.
- Theory of overheats phenomena in media being characterized by the nonlinear temperature dependence of electrical conductivity.
- Plasma jet expansion in a magnetic field. Plasma acceleration in a low current vacuum arc cathode jet.
- Plasma wall transition layers. Sheath and presheath theory. Sheath near a refractory cathode surface.
- The kinetics of macroparticle charging in strongly ionized plasma. The non-stationary and non-equilibrium consideration.
- Macroparticle transport and plasma transport in magnetized ducts. Theory and experiment.
- Phenomena in a vacuum arc with refractory hot anode. Plasma and anode thermal processes in hot refractory anode vacuum arc (HRAVA). Theory and experiment.
- Phenomena in a new type of the vacuum arc with enclosed cavity electrodes like black body configuration. Plasma processes in vacuum arc with black body assembly (VABBA) to producing MP free metallic plasmas. Experiment and application as plasma source.
- Vacuum arc film deposition.
- Plasma phenomena in electrothermal pulsed plasma thruster (PPT).
- Plasma flow and presheath structures in Hall thrusters
- Laser matter interaction. Ablation phenomena, plasma generation and plasma target interaction.
- Discharge phenomena associated with wire explosion at high rate of current rise. Instability effects by wire explosion.
- Phenomena in arc plasmas producing nanostructures.
- Phenomena in inverse heat flux of a metamaterials and cold plasma medicine.
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