Abstract
The influence of helium mole fraction distribution in air on the cold atmospheric plasma jets excited by 1.5 kHz rectangular high voltage pulse is studied in this work. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with incorporation of large eddy simulation (LES) model is used to simulate the helium mole fraction distribution in air under the helium flow from laminar to turbulent regime with increasing helium outlet velocity. Numerical simulation results are combined with experimental results in order to determine the influence of helium distribution on the cold plasma jets. It reveals that the structure of the helium distribution caused by diffusion or by turbulent mixing in turbulent regime determines the characteristics of the cold plasma jets. On the other hand, the curves of plasma jet length (L) versus helium outlet velocity (V) at different jet diameters (D) are unified in a map of jet Reynolds number (Re = ρHe·V·D/μHe, where μHe is the helium viscosity constant) versus dimensionless plasma jet length (l = L/D). The map is allowed to predict the flow pattern of helium jet in order to estimate and control the plasma jet length at different jet diameters.
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