Experimental data are presented concerning the drag force on a cylinder exposed to an argon plasma cross flow with temperatures about 10~4 K and velocities about 10~2m/s. Using a method of sweeping a cylindrical probe...Experimental data are presented concerning the drag force on a cylinder exposed to an argon plasma cross flow with temperatures about 10~4 K and velocities about 10~2m/s. Using a method of sweeping a cylindrical probe across an argon plasma jet, the total drag force on the cylinder can be measured as a function of the lateral distance of cylindrical probe with respect to the plasma-jet axis. Through the Abel inversion, the drag force for per unit of cylinder length and thus the drag coefficient of cylinder have been measured under plasma conditions and compared with the values obtained from the standard drag curve of the cylinder in an isothermal flow. Experimental results show that the measured drag forces are always less than their counterparts read from the standard drag curve with the same Reynolds numbers based on the oncoming plasma properties. The drag force on the cylinder exoposed to a thermal plasma flow is shown to be approximately proportional to the square root of cylinder diameter in the present experiment and it increases slightly with increasing surface temperature of the cylinder. It is also shown that applying a voltage between the drag probe and the anode of the plasma jet generator has little effect on the drag force of cylinder under the experimental conditions. The drag force on a cylinder with finite length exposed to an argon plasma with the axis parallel to the plasma jet is independent of ratio of cylinder length to its dismeter L/d for the cases when L/d≤1.展开更多
A kinetic-theory analysis is presented concerning the heat transfer from a rarefied plasma to a spherical particle for the extreme case of free-molecule regime and thin plasma sheath. A great temperature gradient is a...A kinetic-theory analysis is presented concerning the heat transfer from a rarefied plasma to a spherical particle for the extreme case of free-molecule regime and thin plasma sheath. A great temperature gradient is assumed to exist in the plasma, and thus a non-Maxwellian velocity distribution function is employed for each of the gas species. Analytical results show that the existence of a temperature gradient in the plasma causes a nonuniform distribution of the local heat flux density on the sphere surface, while the total heat flux to the whole particle is independent of the temperature gradient. The nonuniformity of the local heat flux distributioln is small even for the case with a temperature gradient as great as 10~6 K/m, but it may significantly enhance the thermophoretic force on an evaporating particle. Heat transfer is mainly caused by atoms at low gas temperatures with negligible ionization degree, while it can be attributed to ions and electrons at high plasma temperatures.展开更多
文摘Experimental data are presented concerning the drag force on a cylinder exposed to an argon plasma cross flow with temperatures about 10~4 K and velocities about 10~2m/s. Using a method of sweeping a cylindrical probe across an argon plasma jet, the total drag force on the cylinder can be measured as a function of the lateral distance of cylindrical probe with respect to the plasma-jet axis. Through the Abel inversion, the drag force for per unit of cylinder length and thus the drag coefficient of cylinder have been measured under plasma conditions and compared with the values obtained from the standard drag curve of the cylinder in an isothermal flow. Experimental results show that the measured drag forces are always less than their counterparts read from the standard drag curve with the same Reynolds numbers based on the oncoming plasma properties. The drag force on the cylinder exoposed to a thermal plasma flow is shown to be approximately proportional to the square root of cylinder diameter in the present experiment and it increases slightly with increasing surface temperature of the cylinder. It is also shown that applying a voltage between the drag probe and the anode of the plasma jet generator has little effect on the drag force of cylinder under the experimental conditions. The drag force on a cylinder with finite length exposed to an argon plasma with the axis parallel to the plasma jet is independent of ratio of cylinder length to its dismeter L/d for the cases when L/d≤1.
文摘A kinetic-theory analysis is presented concerning the heat transfer from a rarefied plasma to a spherical particle for the extreme case of free-molecule regime and thin plasma sheath. A great temperature gradient is assumed to exist in the plasma, and thus a non-Maxwellian velocity distribution function is employed for each of the gas species. Analytical results show that the existence of a temperature gradient in the plasma causes a nonuniform distribution of the local heat flux density on the sphere surface, while the total heat flux to the whole particle is independent of the temperature gradient. The nonuniformity of the local heat flux distributioln is small even for the case with a temperature gradient as great as 10~6 K/m, but it may significantly enhance the thermophoretic force on an evaporating particle. Heat transfer is mainly caused by atoms at low gas temperatures with negligible ionization degree, while it can be attributed to ions and electrons at high plasma temperatures.
