Low temperature discharge plasma; gas dynamics processes; pasma chemistry, plasma assisted combustion.
Main publications:
N A Popov, “Fast gas heating in a nitrogen–oxygen
discharge plasma: I. Kinetic mechanism”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 44 (2011), 285201
N. A. Popov, “Reaktsii assotsiativnoi ionizatsii v azote s uchastiem vozbuzhdennykh atomov”, Fizika plazmy, 35:5 (2009), 482–496
N A Popov, “Effect of singlet oxygen $O_2(a_1\Delta g)
molecules produced in a gas discharge
plasma on the ignition of
hydrogen–oxygen mixtures”, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., 20 (2011), 045002
N.A. Popov, “Formirovanie i razvitie lidernogo kanala v vozdukhe”, Fizika plazmy, 29:8 (2003), 754–767