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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (8): 1375-1383.

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Transient Acceleration System of Magnetoplasmadynamic Supersonic Airstream and Its Experimental Research

ZHU Tao, LI Yinghong, ZHANG Bailing, CHEN Feng, LI Yiwen   

  1. Science and Technology on Plasma Dynamics Laboratory, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710038, China
  • Received:2011-10-11 Revised:2011-11-30 Online:2012-08-25 Published:2012-08-23
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (10972236)

Abstract: A hot ionization experimental system based on a shock tunnel is developed. A supersonic nozzle (Mach number Ma=1.5) and a test section (segmented Faraday accelerator) are scientifically designed as well as a magnetic & electric field scheme. Helium is chosen as the driver gas while argon as the driven gas, and ionization of the airstream is realized by adding K2CO3 powder into the driven section. The compressed argon with a high temperature drives the nozzle and creates a transient supersonic electric airstream in the test section. The experimental results are as follows: the temperature and pressure of the airstream is 4 185.91 K and 0.037 MPa respectively under the condition of 1.1 MPa driver pressure and 500 Pa driven pressure; when voltage of capacitor is 400 V and magnetic induction is 1.0 T, the electric conductivity is estimated to be 78.1 S/m with a 9.46 kW input power obtained by analyzing the discharge data of a single electrode pair; the speed of the outlet airstream is evaluated to register an increase of 29.3% and the electric efficiency is shown to be approximately 26.1% as calculated by the induced voltage.

Key words: plasma, supersonic speed, MPD/MHD acceleration, hot ionization, shock tunnel, electric conductivity

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