Browsing by Author "V.K. Jain"

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Acoustic wave interaction with plasma
(1978) M. Sakuntala; V.K. Jain
Experiments have been conducted to find the variation of the velocity of an acoustic wave propagating through air plasma. It is found that the velocity of sound increases with increasing charged particle density in the plasma. Also it has been observed that as the frequency of the acoustic wave through the plasma increases, the perturbed variation in charged particle density and the electron-neutral atom elastic collision frequency remain constant as long as the frequency of the sound wave is less than the ionisation frequency of the plasma. For further increase in the wave frequency, equal to, or greater than, the ionisation frequency of the plasma, the change in the number density reduces to a minimum value while the elastic collision frequency of the plasma increases.
SEM-EDX analysis of various sizes aerosols in Delhi India
(2009) Arun Srivastava; V.K. Jain; Anchal Srivastava
Scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM-EDX) was used to understand the differences in morphology, elemental composition and particle density of aerosols in different five size ranges to further investigate the potential sources as well as transport of pollutants from/at a much polluted and a very clean area of Delhi. Aerosol samples were obtained in five different size ranges viz. ≥10.9, 10.9-5.4, 5.4-1.6, 1.6-0.7 and ≤0.7 μm from a considerably very clean and a much polluted area of Delhi. It was observed that at polluted area most of the particles irrespective of size are of anthropogenic origin. At clean area, in coarse size fractions particles are of natural origin while in fine size range the presence of anthropogenic particles suggests the transport of particles from one area to the other. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008.