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Performance of Capillary Plasma Source With Combustible Materials

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Application of an energetic material (EM) in a liquid or gaseous form to electrothermal (ET) plasma discharge systems can provide an energetic plasma jet that has desirable parameters for launching… Click to show full abstract

Application of an energetic material (EM) in a liquid or gaseous form to electrothermal (ET) plasma discharge systems can provide an energetic plasma jet that has desirable parameters for launching applications. In this energetic ET concept, the EM is basically injected into the plasma source that is operated in an ablation-free regime. The discharge and EM combustion processes have been simulated using the ETFlowCom code, which is an in-house developed energetic ET plasma model. In this article, the ETFlowCom code is used to predict the energetic plasma jet parameters such as temperature, pressure, heat flux, and exit velocity. Different computational case studies have been conducted using a variety of EM mixtures. The simulation results show that the generated energetic plasma jet has the density on the order of 10271/m3, kinetic pressure on the order of hundreds of MPa, and an exit velocity that can reach up to 6 km/s. These parameters are found to be functions of the EM type and the mixing ratio as well. The jet parameters show strong potential for launching applicability.

Keywords: energetic plasma; plasma source; plasma jet; plasma

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Year Published: 2019

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