RESEARCH ON RAREFIED GAS DYNAMICS AND PLASMA DYNAMICS

Abstract

Research activities in the field of rarefied gasdynamics during the period September 1960 to August 1962 are reported in summary. Most of these constitute continuation of work reported previously, particularly in the experimental studies of rarefied gasdynamics and the attendant development of equipment experimental tools. New activities have been mainly in the general area of plasmadynamics which is distinguished from magnetohydrodynamics in that the gas in question is only partially ionized and the electrical conductivity is far from approaching infinity. This represents a direction towards treating realistic problems, some of which are of engineering interest, such as the re-entry radio communication problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0406432

Entities

People

  • Raymond L. Chuan

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Boundary Layer
  • Charged Particles
  • Computational Science
  • Crystal Lattices
  • Crystal Structure
  • Differential Equations
  • Electrons
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Radio Frequency
  • Two Dimensional
  • Viscous Flow

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.