DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND OPERATION OF A LABORATORY SIMULATION OF THE REENTRY PLASMA.

Abstract

A Reentry Plasma Facility has been constructed which simulates the plane plasma slab that develops in front of a reentering blunt body. The Facility will be used to study planar plasma effects on incident electromagnetic radiation. Design, details of construction, and operating procedures are presented.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Jun 01, 1967
• Accession Number: AD0820781

Entities

People

• Ray Louis Hanle Jr

Organizations

• Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Blunt Bodies
• Bodies
• Buildings And Structures
• Construction
• Electromagnetic Radiation
• Radiation
• Research Facilities
• Simulations

Fields of Study

• Physics

Readers

• Fluid Dynamics.
• Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
• Software Engineering