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Computational simulations of air glow discharge plasma in the presence of supersonic flow are presented. The glow discharge model is based on a self-consistent, multi-species, continuum description of the plasma with finite-rate chemistry effects. The glow discharge model is coupled to a compressible Navier-Stokes solver to study the effect of the plasma on the flow and the counter-effect of the flow on the plasma. A finite-rate air chemistry model is presented and validated against experiments from the literature at a pressure of 600 mTorr. Computational results are compared with experimentally measured V-I characteristics, axial positive ion densities and electron temperature, and reasonably good qualitative and quantitative agreement is observed. The validated air plasma model is then used to study the effect of the surface plasma discharge on M=3 supersonic flow at freestream pressure 18 Torr and the corresponding effects of the flow on the discharge structure in two dimensions. The species concentrations and the gas temperature are examined in the absence and presence of bulk supersonic flow. The peak gas temperature from the computations is found to be 1180 K with the surface plasma alone in the absence of flow, and 830 K in the presence of supersonic flow. Results indicate that O- ions can have comparable densities to electrons in the pressure range 1-20 Torr, and that O2- ion densities are at least two orders of magnitude smaller over the pressure range considered. Different ion species are found to be dominant in the absence and presence of supersonic flow, highlighting the importance of including finite-rate chemistry effects in discharge models for understanding plasma actuator physical phenomena. Electrode polarity effects are investigated, and the cathode upstream actuation is found to be stronger than the actuation strength with the cathode downstream, which is consistent with experimental findings of several groups. A parallel computing implementation of the plasma and flow simulation tools has been developed and is used to study the three-dimensional plasma actuator configuration with circular pin electrodes. / text

Graduation date: 1998

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xvi, 193 p. : ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on February 25, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2000. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 161 p. : ill. (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-157).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Drexel University, 2005. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-186).

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