Plasma Aerodynamic Experiments
Abstract
As is well known plasma technologies nowadays find wide applications in aerodynamics, and it has become evident that development of hypersonic aviation is unlikely possible without application of plasma and beam technologies. In external aerodynamics can be applied for improvement of combustion processes due to usage of created volumetric plasma structures in the stagnation zone and directly in subsonic and supersonic air-fuel mixtures. Electrical gas discharges are promising methods of combustion improvement because of their ability to produce concentrated zones with high content of chemical active species. Actually this puts the problem of understanding the nontrivial interaction of hydrodynamic, chemical and plasma-chemical phenomena. So there is absolute necessity for detailed physical study, both experimental and theoretical, of discharge activated reacting flows at well-defined conditions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 22, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA446478
Entities
People
- A. F. Aleksandrov
- I. B. Timofeev
- V. L. Bychkov