The Influence of Thermoelectric Effects on the Maximum Temperature in a Radially Constricted Gas Discharge Between Electrodes

Abstract

In an earlier paper the author provided a method for estimating the maximum temperature in a steady-state, centrally constricted, highly ionized deuterium discharge between electrodes. The analysis applied to discharges not too long, so that bremsstrahlung loss could be neglected compared to the main heat loss by conduction to the electrodes, and thermoelectric effects were not included.