TY - JOUR

T1 - Comments About the Article “On the Similarities of Low-Temperature Plasma Discharges”

AU - Тимофеев, Николай Александрович

AU - Сухомлинов, Владимир Сергеевич

AU - Мустафаев, Александр Сеит-Умерович

AU - Zissis, Georges

AU - Solikhov, Davlat Quvatovich

PY - 2020/2

Y1 - 2020/2

N2 - The Comments present some information that isvaluable in our opinion, but absent in the article “On theSimilarities of Low-Temperature Plasma Discharges” (Y. Fu, andJ. P. Verboncoeur, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 47,No. 5, PP. 1994–2003, May 2019). The cited article considersthe validity of the similarity laws for low-temperature plasmadischarges in different discharge regimes and describes recentexperimental and numerical studies, including the scaling of gasbreakdowns and steady-state discharges. It is stated that themotivations of this article also include increasing the fundamentalunderstanding of basic plasma sciences. This article is ratherinformative. However, the authors did not consider the veryimportant and widely used example of discharges – low pressuredischarge light sources (mercury fluorescent lamps, sodium lampsof low pressure etc.). It is known that for such discharges thereare particular similarity laws. Besides, in the cited article, thereis no description of real similarity law application to plasmadiagnostics. There is also no satisfactory explanation for thephysical reasons of the similarity laws occurrence. So, the focus ofattention of the Comments is to fill in the lack of this informationfor readers.

AB - The Comments present some information that isvaluable in our opinion, but absent in the article “On theSimilarities of Low-Temperature Plasma Discharges” (Y. Fu, andJ. P. Verboncoeur, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 47,No. 5, PP. 1994–2003, May 2019). The cited article considersthe validity of the similarity laws for low-temperature plasmadischarges in different discharge regimes and describes recentexperimental and numerical studies, including the scaling of gasbreakdowns and steady-state discharges. It is stated that themotivations of this article also include increasing the fundamentalunderstanding of basic plasma sciences. This article is ratherinformative. However, the authors did not consider the veryimportant and widely used example of discharges – low pressuredischarge light sources (mercury fluorescent lamps, sodium lampsof low pressure etc.). It is known that for such discharges thereare particular similarity laws. Besides, in the cited article, thereis no description of real similarity law application to plasmadiagnostics. There is also no satisfactory explanation for thephysical reasons of the similarity laws occurrence. So, the focus ofattention of the Comments is to fill in the lack of this informationfor readers.

U2 - DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2019.2950532

DO - DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2019.2950532

M3 - Comment/debate

VL - 48

SP - 596

EP - 601

JO - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

JF - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

SN - 0093-3813

IS - 2

ER -