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Formation of active medium in a supersonic recombination-nonequilibrium plasma flow

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A method of calculating a plasmodynamic laser from the given characteristics of the working fluid and the supersonic nozzle and from the stagnation parameters of the plasma in the nozzle forechamber is proposed. This method gives an analytic expression for the dependence of the inversion coefficient and the laser power on the above-mentioned parameters and serves mainly for the scientific planning of physical and detailed numerical experiments.

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    S. V. Makarychev & G. D. Smekhov

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  1. S. V. Makarychev
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 109–114, January–February, 1988.

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Makarychev, S.V., Smekhov, G.D. Formation of active medium in a supersonic recombination-nonequilibrium plasma flow. Fluid Dyn 23, 89–94 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01051554

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