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Study of thermal and gasdynamic characteristics of a subsonic plasma air jet

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Results are presented from a numerical analysis and experimental study of the enthalpy and velocity distributions along and across a subsonic plasma air jet.

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Abbreviations

x, r:

axial and radial coordinates

u, v:

axial and radial components of velocity

ν:

density

μ:

viscosity

ψ:

emissivity

r0.5 :

radius at which local value of velocity or enthalpy is half its axial value

δ, Δ:

radii of dynamic and thermal boundary layers

q:

heat flux, kW/m2

h, hw :

stagnation enthalpy and enthalpy at wall temperature, kJ/kg

p, p∞ :

stagnation pressure and static pressure, Pa

R:

radius of curvature of spherical front part of body

0:

teconditions at nozzle edge

m:

conditions on jet axis

∞:

conditions on outer boundary of jet

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  1. A. V. Lykov Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, USSR

    V. L. Sergeev, A. S. Strogii & V. A. Tsurko

  2. Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, Minsk

    V. L. Sergeev, A. S. Strogii & V. A. Tsurko

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 34–39, January, 1982.

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Sergeev, V.L., Strogii, A.S. & Tsurko, V.A. Study of thermal and gasdynamic characteristics of a subsonic plasma air jet. Journal of Engineering Physics 42, 25–30 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824985

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