1992/08/01 by I A Kossyi, И. А. Коссый, Alexander Kostinsky +4 · 10 citations
Engineering · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics #Plasma Applications and Diagnostics #Plasma Diagnostics and Applications
paper · doi:10.1088/0963-0252/1/3/011
openalex publication_date 1992/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
A kinetic scheme for non-equilibrium discharge in nitrogen-oxygen mixtures is developed, which almost wholly describes chemical transformations of particles in the cold (200 K<or=T<or=500 K) vibrationally unexcited gas. The kinetic scheme includes processes of excitation of electronic states, destruction and ionization of heavy particles by electron impact, associative ionization, electron attachment and detachment, electron-ion and ion-ion recombination, chemical transformations of neutral particles (in ground and excited electronic states) and ion conversion. On the basis of kinetic modelling in the framework of the kinetic scheme proposed, the influence of the electronic excitations of nitrogen molecules and atoms on air composition dynamics is analysed.