Yanguas Gil, A.Cotrino Bautista, JoséRodríguez González-Elipe, Agustín2025-07-012025-07-012004-11-03Yanguas Gil, A., Cotrino Bautista, J. y Rodríguez González-Elipe, A. (2004). Collisional radiative model of an argon atmospheric capillary surface-wave discharge. Physics of Plasmas, 11, 5497-5506. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1804972.1070-664X1089-7674https://hdl.handle.net/11441/174815The characteristics of a microwave surface-wave sustained plasma operated at atmospheric pressure in an open-ended dielectric tube are investigated theoretically as a first step in the development of a self-consistent model for these discharges. The plasma column is sustained in flowing argon. A surface-wave discharge that fills the whole radial cross section of the discharge tube is considered. With experimental electron temperature profiles [García et al., Spectrochim. Acta, Part B 55, 1733 (2000)] the numerical model is used to test the validity of the different approximations and to study the influence of the different kinetic processes and power loss mechanisms on the discharge.application/pdf11 p.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1063/1.1804972