NUMERICAL SIMULATION of SUB- and SUPERSONICFLOWS in PLASMATRONS

 

The research is performed in collaboration with the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

INDUCTIVE PLASMATRON (VKI)

 

 

 

 

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Under-expanded supersonic plasma jet. Upper part is experiment; lower one is shadow computational picture

 

 

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Under-expanded supersonic plasma jet over sample cylinder

 

1.   Utyuzhnikov, S.V., Vasil'evskii, S.A., Konyukhov, A.V., Rudenko, D.V., Kolesnikov, A.F., and G.S.R. Sarma, "Numerical modelling subsonic and supersonic inductive plasma flows", Proc. of ECCOMAS CFD Conference, Swansea, UK, 2001.

 

2.   Utyuzhnikov, S.V., Konyukhov, A.V., and Vasil’evskii, S.A., Rudenko D.V., and Chazot O., “Simulation of sub- & supersonic flows in inductive plasmatrons”, AIAA J., 2004, V.42, N9, pp. 1871-1877.