Abstract: | Results of detailed spectroscopic investigations of the spatial structure of the plasma of a free-burning electric arc between copper electrodes are given. A method of adaptive-computational spectroscopy that permits determination of nonequilibrium-plasma parameters is proposed. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 131–138, January–February, 1998. |