简介:Anexperimentalinvestigationonairfoil(NACA64-215)shockcontrolisperformedbyplasmaaerodynamicactuationinasupersonictunnel(Ma=2).Theresultsofschlierenandpressuremeasurementshowthatwhenplasmaaerodynamicactuationisapplied,thepositionmovesforwardandtheintensityofshockattheheadoftheairfoilweakens.Withtheincreaseinactuatingvoltage,thetotalpressuremeasuredattheheadoftheairfoilincreases,whichmeansthattheshockintensitydecreasesandthecontrolefectincreases.Thebestactuationefectiscausedbyupwind-directionactuationwithamagneticfield,andthendownwind-directionactuationwithamagneticfield,whilethecontrolefectofaerodynamicactuationwithoutamagneticfieldisthemostinconspicuous.Themeanintensityofthenormalshockattheheadoftheairfoilisrelativelydecreasedby16.33%,andthenormalshockintensityisrelativelyreducedby27.5%when1000Vactuatingvoltageandupwind-directionactuationareappliedwithamagneticfield.ThispapertheoreticallyanalyzestheJouleheatingefectgeneratedbyDCdischargeandtheLorentzforceefectcausedbythemagneticfield.Thedischargecharacteristicsarecomparedforallkindsofactuationconditionstorevealthemechanismofshockcontrolbyplasmaaerodynamicactuation.
简介:Theq-profilecontrolproblemintheramp-upphaseofplasmadischargesisconsid-eredinthiswork.Themagneticdiffusionpartialdifferentialequation(PDE)modelsthedynamicsofthepoloidalmagneticfluxprofile,whichisusedinthisworktoformulateaPDE-constrainedop-timizationproblemunderaquasi-staticassumption.Theminimumsurfacetheoryandconstrainednumericoptimizationarethenappliedtoachievesuboptimalsolutions.Sincethetransientdy-namicsispre-givenbytheminimumsurfacetheory,thenthismethodcandramaticallyacceleratethesolutionprocess.Inordertoberobustunderexternaluncertaintiesinrealimplementations,PID(proportional-integral-derivative)controllersareusedtoforcetheactuatorstofollowthecomputationalinputtrajectories.Ithasthepotentialtoimplementinreal-timeforlongtimedischargesbycombiningthismethodwiththemagneticequilibriumupdate.