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Partition functions, adiabatic exponent and their role in the analysis of spectroscopic Doppler shift in determining the Mach number and temperature of a hypersonic plasma jet by Thio, Y.C. F., Hao, C.J., Qi, S.B.

“…Theoretical estimates of the thermodynamic properties of the argon plasma jet play an important role in the analysis and interpretation of the experimental…”
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Design and modeling of a Laser Induced Florescence Diagnostics System for PJMIF development by Wu, C., Yuan, Y., Han, Q., Thio, Y.C. F.

“…The Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) method may prove advantageous in characterizing plasma jets, a critical element in Plasma-Jet-Driven Magneto-Inertial…”
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Doppler spectroscopic measurement of the translational and transverse expansion of a hypersonic plasma jet in PJMIF by Hao, C.J., Li, M.R., Guo, X.Y., Thio, Y.C. F., Zhang, Y.R.

“…Merging quasi-spherical arrays of plasma jets are used to form plasma liners for imploding magnetized target plasma in Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial…”
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Spectroscopic measurement of the electron temperature of a hypersonic plasma jet by Li, M., Hao, C., Guo, X., Thio, Y.C. F., Zhang, Y.

“…The efficacy of a plasma liner formed by the merging of a spherical array of plasma jets in imploding a magnetized target plasma depends critically on its…”
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Measuring the mass dispensed by an ultrafast gas valve in a two-stage gas injection system for an advanced plasma gun for PJMIF by Jing, Y., Zhang, X., Zhu, Y., Liu, Y., Mu, J., Thio, Y.C. F.

“…The two-stage gas injection system is introduced for the first time to inject a working gas into a coaxial plasma gun to be accelerated as a plasma slab to…”
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Development of an advanced experimental system for fundamental investigations of glow and arcing discharge (GADX) by Hao, C.J., Thio, Y.C. F., Du, P., Li, M.R., Guo, X.Y., Zhang, Y.R., Zhu, X.H., Wu, C.C.

“…Despite the recent research efforts on the steady-state and pulsed modes of glow discharge, the behavior of the glow discharge below sub-microsecond time scale…”
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Development of a triple-path, lowinductance, 0.5 MA, low-inductance, lowvoltage spark gap switch by Yuan, W., Shen, Y., Thio, Y.C. F., Li, G., Wu, C., Hao, C., Zhang, C., Zhou, Y., Liang, F.

“…We report on the development and testing of a triple-path, low-inductance, low-voltage, high-current, fielddistortion spark gap switch, as one of the key…”
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Development of an ultrafast gas valve in a plasma gun for PJMIF application by Zhang, D., Liu, Y., Jing, Y., Yuan, D., Zhang, X., Zhu, Y., Li, G., Mu, J., Thio, Y.C. F.

“…Until now, the fastest gas valve in a space of less than 250 cc for injecting milligrams of argon into a coaxial plasma gun is the gas valve of the HJ1 coaxial…”
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A two-stage gas injection system for coaxial plasma gun as a driver for PJMIF by Thio, Y.C. F., Zhang, D., Liu, Y., Yuan, D., Zhang, X., Yuan, W., Zhu, Y., Li, G., Xu, M., Shen, Y.

“…In an attempt to solve the gas sealing problem in the new gas valve for the STG1 coaxial plasma gun [1], a new concept in injecting the working gas into the…”
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A third-generation coaxial plasma gun (STG1) for PJMIF application by Thio, Y.C. F., Zhang, D., Liu, Y., Yuan, D., Zhang, X., Zhu, Y., Shen, Y., Li, G., Hao, C., Jie, M., Xu, M., Bo, Q., Liu, Z.

“…Coaxial plasma gun has been researched and developed for more than 70 years for a variety of applications, notably as a plasma thruster for space propulsion,…”
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An experimental system (JMX) for investigating the dynamics of the merging of hypersonic plasma jets by Yuan, W., Shen, Y., Zhang, C., Wu, C., Zheng, X., Zhu, X., Thio, F. Y.C.

“…The physical processes by which hypersonic plasma jets merge to form a plasma liner are critical in the development of plasma jet driven magneto-inertial…”
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Innovative approaches towards an economic fusion reactor by Guo, Houyang, Thio, Francis Y C, Binderbauer, Michl W, Buttery, Richard J, Jarboe, Thomas R, Maingi, Rajesh, Sarff, John S, Stangeby, Peter C, Sutherland, Derek A, Wade, Mickey R, Zarnstorff, Michael C

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An experimental facility to investigate the physics of thermal implosion of plasmas by Thio, Y.C., Liu, Y., Dorregeray, F.

“…Summary form only given. The heart of the University of Miami facility described here is a 20MJ capacitive pulsed power supply at a maximum rated voltage of 10…”
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In vivo 3-D distributions of electric fields in pig skin with rectangular pulse electrical current stimulation (RPECS) by Cheng, K., Tarjan, P.P., Thio, Y.C., Mertz, P.M.

“…We developed stimulating and detecting electrodes. We experimentally examined three dimensional (3‐D) distributions of electric fields in living pig skin under…”
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2-D MHD numerical simulations of EML plasma armatures with ablation by Boynton, G.C., Huerta, M.A., Thio, Y.C.

“…A 2-D resistive MHD (magnetohydrodynamic) code is used to simulate an EML plasma armature. The energy equation includes ohmic heating, radiation heat…”
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The projectile-wall interface in rail launchers by Thio, Y.C., Huerta, M.A., Boynton, G.C., Tidman, D.A., Wang, S.Y., Winsor, N.K.

“…At sufficiently high velocity, an energetic gaseous interface is formed between the projectile and the gun wall. The authors analyze the flow in this interface…”
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