Study of a Structural Plasma Influence on Characteristics of Viscous Friction and Separated Near-Surface Zone Position Under High-Speed Airflow

Abstract

This report results from a contract tasking Institute of High Temperatures RAS as follows: The contractor will study the application of plasma technology for drag reduction and flow control. In particular, he will investigate the change in aerodynamic friction and the flow separation point using a modulated High Frequency (HF) multi-streamer electric discharge near a model's surface. In order to measure plasma effects on the viscous friction the experiments will be made in a wind tunnel at transonic and subsonic speeds. The short duration wind tunnel currently available at IVTAN will be used. The Mach numbers at which experiments will be made are 0.1<M<0.95 and M=1.7. Diagnostic investigations such as: Schlieren (for flow visualization); spectral system (for emission measurements): pressure sensors; tenso-balances: fast photo camera; thermocouples and others will allow to investigate in detail the process of interaction of surface plasma with aerodynamic bodies in high-speed flow.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA433384

Entities

People

  • Sergey B. Leonov

Organizations

  • Russian Academy of Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Control
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Electric Discharges
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Energy Transfer
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Glow Discharges
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Measurement
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Measurement

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.