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Experimental Study of the Overequilibrium Surface Heating Effect in a Subsonic Dissociated Air Jet

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The effect of overequilibrium heating of a surface with nonuniform catalytic properties in a subsonic flow of dissociated air is experimentally studied using the VGU-4 HF-plasmatron. A temperature jump is observed on a plate of Buran orbital vehicle heat-shield material as the flow transitions from the low-catalytic area of the surface to the high-catalytic area covered with chromium-nickel spinel NiCr2O4. A temperature jump is also observed on the heat-shield tile of the Buran orbital vehicle at the transition from the low-catalytic area of its surface to the medium-catalytic area covered with niobium. The temperatures of the surfaces with uniform and nonuniform catalytic properties under the same flow regimes are compared.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to I.V. Lukomskii for help in preparing the sample materials and to A.F. Kolesnikov for valuable discussions of the results.

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This work was carried out as part of state order AAAA-A20-120011690135-5 on the large-scale research facility (USF) “High-frequency induction plasmatrons VGU-3 and VGU-4" (https://ckp-rf.ru/usu/441568/).

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Chaplygin, A.V. Experimental Study of the Overequilibrium Surface Heating Effect in a Subsonic Dissociated Air Jet. Fluid Dyn 58, 712–722 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462823601006

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