Heat transfer in thermal plasmas

摘要

This review is concerned with some basic studies of plasma heat transfer and with the effects which the results of these studies may have on applications.As typical examples of applications,heat transfer to the walls of a cascaded arc and to particulates injected into thermal plasmas will be discussed,including the results of a unified theory for particle heating.As an example of the effects of magnetic fields on plasma heat transfer,some recent results of a r.f.plasma sintering experiment will be reported which revealed unexpected asymmetry of heat transfer to the sintering sample and to the walls of the reactor vessel.