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Experimental determination of the resistance of a spherical particle in an argon plasma stream

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The authors present results of measurements of the resistance of a sphere in an argon plasma stream. It was found that the flow being nonisothermal strongly influenced the resistance coefficient.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 396–402, March, 1985.

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Kabanov, V.V., Klubnikin, V.S. Experimental determination of the resistance of a spherical particle in an argon plasma stream. Journal of Engineering Physics 48, 285–289 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00878192

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