Plasma Driven Hypersonic Testing

Abstract

This report details initial experiments exploring the use of pulsed power driven dense plasma flows for hypersonics research. Such flows have regularly been produced for laboratory scale astrophysics studies, however, detailed characteristics of the flows and their interactions with different targets placed in the flow have rarely been studied for hydrodynamics purposes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 24, 2021
Accession Number
AD1144331

Entities

People

  • Simon Bland

Organizations

  • Imperial College London

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ablative Materials
  • Boundary Layer
  • Diameters
  • Electron Density
  • Interferograms
  • Interferometry
  • Mach Number
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Physics
  • Plasma Jets
  • Pulsed Power
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Shock Waves
  • Thomson Scattering
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster