Interaction of a plasma with a solid surface. I - Incidence of a supersonic stream on bodies of different profiles. II - Boundary layer structure. III - Analysis of luminescence occurring at the surface of bodies in a plasma stream
Abstract
The paper describes some of the characteristics of the luminescence that takes place around bodies of different shapes (a plane, sphere, cone, and others) when they are exposed to a supersonic plasma jet. It is shown that the intensity and structure of luminescence around bodies in the flow of a plasma depends essentially on the ratio between the mean free path of particles in the stream and the characteristic dimensions of the bodies in the flow.
- Publication:
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Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki
- Pub Date:
- November 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976ZhTFi..46.2333D
- Keywords:
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- Boundary Layer Plasmas;
- Luminescence;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Flow;
- Plasma Jets;
- Supersonic Boundary Layers;
- Supersonic Flow;
- Charged Particles;
- Hydrogen Plasma;
- Mean Free Path;
- Metal Surfaces;
- Oscillographs;
- Particle Density (Concentration);
- Photographic Recording;
- Plasma Diagnostics;
- Plasma Probes;
- Plasma Physics