Experimental investigation on plasma jet deflection with magnetic fluid control based on PIV measurement

This paper is devoted to experimentally investigating the influence of magnetic field intensity and gas temperature on the plasma jet deflection controlled by magneto hydrodynamics. The catalytic ionization seed CS_2CO_3 is injected into combustion gas by artificial forced ionization to obtain plasma fluid on a high-temperature magnetic fluid experimental platform. The plasma jet was deflected under the effect of an external magnetic field, forming a thrust-vector effect.Magnesium oxide was selected as a tracer particle, and a two-dimensional image of the jet flow field was collected using the particle image velocimetry(PIV) measurement method. Through image processing and velocity vector analysis of the flow field, the value of the jet deflection angle was obtained quantitatively to evaluate the thrust-vector effect. The variation of the jet deflection angle with the magnetic field intensity and gas temperature was studied under different experimental conditions. Experimental results show that the jet deflection angle increased gradually with a rise in gas temperature and then increased substantially when the gas temperature exceeded 2300 K. The jet deflection angle also increased with an increase in magnetic induction intensity. Experiments demonstrate it is feasible to use PIV test technology to study the thrust vector under magnetic control conditions.

Experimental study on plasma jet deflection and energy extraction with MHD control

This paper presents an integrated research scheme for vector deflection and energy extraction in a gas plasma jet under Magneto-Hydrodynamic(MHD)control.A MHDcontrolled thrust-vector test rig was used to conduct the experimental research.A gas plasma was obtained by injecting ionization seeds of Cs2CO3 into the combustion chamber via artificially forced ionization.The effects of the gas temperature and ionization seed mass fraction on the plasma jet deflection and energy extraction were experimentally verified under an applied magnetic field.The experimental results were analyzed theoretically.The results showed that the deflection amplitude of the gas plasma jet and the extracted voltage signal intensity increased with increasing gas temperature and the ionization seed mass fraction.The extracted dynamic voltage signals proved that the ionization seeds of Cs2CO3 induced gas ionization at 1173 K.The experiment verified that it is feasible to simultaneously achieve jet deflection and extract energy under the action of an external magnetic field.