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Segmented anode, carbon dioxide-hydrogen performance and hollow cathode erosion tests on low power MPD arc thrustor, noting current measurements
Electrothermal instabilities for explanation of MPD arc thrustor rotating spoke phenomenon, noting agreement with experimental results
Arc driven shock tube with alumina ceramic liner to reduce driver gas contamination, noting shock speed and test time increase
Refractory cone models made of copper and Co coated Be for force tests in high enthalpy hypersonic arc tunnels at high simulated attitudes
Pressure distribution in finite width high speed self acting gas lubricated slider and partial arc bearings, noting trailing edge conditions and side leakage effects
Electric arc structure in hydrogen magnetic annular discharge computed using nonequilibrium hydrodynamics to analyze supersonic and subsonic processes
Alternating current plasma arc coaxial flow stabilization
Digital data acquisition system with ultrahigh sampling rate for Ames electric arc shock tunnel, describing analog to digital conversion, data storage, system performance, etc
He and Ar arc-heated flows into reservoir and expansion in converging-diverging supersonic nozzles, considering flow equilibrium effect on heat transfer and enthalpy
Luminous tenuous collimated electron beam from plume of MPD arc in fiberglass vacuum tank, examining beam trajectory in geomagnetic fields
Actuator disk model for study of azimuthally nonuniform MPD arc plasma dynamics
Electric arc stabilization in crossed convective and magnetic fields, discussing column slanting relationship to widening near downstream electrode
Power density in gas tungsten arc welding with modified cathodes
Performance perameters and incipient cavitation indices for double circular-arc hydrofoil tests with configurations for cascade flow in hydraulic test tunnels
High voltage ionization of gases in shock tubes by arc discharges
Intercomparison of Minitrack and optical tracking networks using GEOS 1 long arc orbital solutions
Systematic two dimensional cascade tests - multiple circular-arc hydrofoils
Nozzle expansion of air in hypersonic electric arc heated wind tunnel