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Victor V. Kuzenov, Sergei V. Ryzhkov and Aleksey Yu. Varaksin
This paper provides an overview of modern research on magnetoplasma methods of influencing gas-dynamic and plasma flows. The main physical mechanisms that control the interaction of plasma discharges with gaseous moving media are indicated. The ways of o...
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Suliman Alshammari, Abdullh Jabr, Saad Jaddua and Abdulhakim Alabadusalam
A compact microwave ECR ion source with low operating power was tested and commissioned for the ion injector line in the multipurpose low-energy ELASR storage ring facility at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Riyadh. The compact ...
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Ghazanfar Mehdi, Maria Grazia De Giorgi, Sara Bonuso, Zubair Ali Shah, Giacomo Cinieri and Antonio Ficarella
This study investigates the kinetic modeling of CH4/H2/Air mixture with nanosecond pulse discharge (NSPD) by varying H2/CH4 ratios from 0 to 20% at ambient pressure and temperature. A validated version of the plasma and chemical kinetic mechanisms was us...
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Victor V. Kuzenov, Sergei V. Ryzhkov and Aleksey Yu. Varaksin
A mathematical model is formulated, and a numerical study of magneto-plasma compressor (MPC) discharges in gases for a wide range of changes in the main electrical parameters and the characteristics of the surrounding gas environment is carried out. The ...
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Eduardo M. Calvo, Mario J. Pinheiro and Paulo A. Sá
This work aims to optimize a previous self-consistent model of a single stage electrohydrodynamic (EHD) thruster for space applications. The investigated parameters were the thruster performance (propulsion force T, the thrust to power ratio T/P, the ele...
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Giuseppe Gallo, Adriano Isoldi, Dario Del Gatto, Raffaele Savino, Amedeo Capozzoli, Claudio Curcio and Angelo Liseno
The present work is focused on a detailed description of an in-house, particle-in-cell code developed by the authors, whose main aim is to perform highly accurate plasma simulations on an off-the-shelf computing platform in a relatively short computation...
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Nicholas S. Campbell, Kyle Hanquist, Andrew Morin, Jason Meyers and Iain Boyd
Recent developments in the world of hypersonic flight have brought increased attention to the thermal response of materials exposed to high-enthalpy gases. One promising concept is electron transpiration cooling (ETC) that provides the prospect of a pass...
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Yajun Zhu, Chengwen Zhong and Kun Xu
The gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) and the unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) are numerical methods based on the gas-kinetic theory, which have been widely used in the numerical simulations of high-speed and non-equilibrium flows. Both methods employ a multisca...
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Svyatoslav Gordeev, Stepan Kanev, Andrey Melnikov, Igor Nazarenko and Sergey Khartov
The work is devoted to the theoretical assessment of the efficiency increase possibility for the radio-frequency ion injector, which is designed for the contactless removal of space debris from near-earth orbit by using an antenna located inside the disc...
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Qinghao Shen, Run Huang, Zili Xu and Wei Hua
This study represents a self-consistent three-dimensional (3D) fluid plasma model coupled with Maxwell equations at an intermediate pressure between 1000 and 5000 Pa. The model was established using the finite element method to analyze the effects of tim...
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