Thursday 10
E. Low Pressure Plasmas and Applications
Chair: P. Brault, M. Mikikian - Each talk is 10'+2' duration
› 11:05 - 11:20 (15min)
› Blaise
Modification of the shock wave shape of a supersonic low Reynolds number flow field around a cylinder by a glow discharge in air
Romain Joussot  1, *@  , Viviana Lago  1@  , Jean-Denis Parisse  2@  
1 : Institut de Combustion Aérothermique Réactivité et Environnement  (ICARE)  -  Website
CNRS : UPR3021
1C Av. de la Recherche Scientifique 45071 ORLEANS cedex 2 -  France
2 : Institut Universitaire des Systèmes Thermiques Industriels  (IUSTI)
PRES Aix Marseille Université, CNRS : UMR7343
5, Rue Enrico Fermi Technopôle Château Gombert 13453 Marseille cedex 13 -  France
* : Corresponding author

This paper describes investigations focused on the shock wave modification induced by a plasma actuator flush mounted on a cylinder in rarefied flow regime. The experimental measurements were carried out in a supersonic low-density wind tunnel and the numerical investigation used a 2D fully compressible Navier Stokes simulation. Experimental observations showed the modification of the shock wave when the discharge was switched on. The numerical simulations show that this modification cannot be reproduced correctly by thermal effects. A theoretical approach was then proposed, in which the shock stand-off distance is written as a function of the ionization degree of the plasma. This approach was confirmed experimentally by measuring electronic properties of the plasma.


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