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Charge transfer by high-energy electrons onto the leeward surfaces of a solid in a supersonic rarefied plasma flow

V. A. Shuvalov, A. I. Priymak, K. A. Bandel, G. S. Kochubei

Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 49005

Abstract: Numerical and experimental dependence of equilibrium potentials of the leeward surfaces on the ratio of concentrations of high-energy electrons and positive ions in a supersonic rarefied plasma flow around a solid are obtained.

Keywords: plasma, solid, supersonic flow, electrons, equilibrium potential.

UDC: 533.95

Received: 06.03.2007

 English version: Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics, 2008, 49:1, 9–17

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