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The contact between a thermally nonequilibrium dense plasma and the emitter electrode in a subsonic MHD generator channel is considered. Only the three-particle recombination reaction is treated, in the absence of any magnetic field. The electrode layer is divided into two regions — quasineutral and space-charge areas. The equations which describe the electrophysical processes in these regions are solved numerically on a BÉSM-6 computer. The results are presented in the form of voltage-current curves for the electrode boundary layer at various temperature values for the wall, main flow, and electrons.
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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 5, pp. 129–132, September–October, 1974.
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Belykh, V.I. Voltage-current characteristics of the electrode boundary layer in a thermally nonequilibrium dense plasma. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 15, 689–692 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00851531
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