KINETICS AND SCALING IN PLASMA AERODYNAMICS

A. P. Ershov, I. G. Zorina, B. I. Timofeev, S. N. Chuvashev

Moscow State University, Russia

Experiments on creation of longitudinal direct current discharge in hyper-sonic (M=6) airflow and simulation of such discharge are described. The possibility of scaling in plasma aerodynamics are shown on base of analysis of physical model. The transformations of similarity are established