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Laser induced aluminum surface breakdown model (Document No: 20020058228)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Chen, Yen-Sen Zhang, Sijun Liu, Jiwen |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Description | Laser powered propulsion systems involve complex fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and radiative transfer processes. Based on an unstructured grid, pressure-based computational aerothermodynamics; platform, several sub-models describing such underlying physics as laser ray tracing and focusing, thermal non-equilibrium, plasma radiation and air spark ignition have been developed. This proposed work shall extend the numerical platform and existing sub-models to include the aluminum wall surface Inverse Bremsstrahlung (IB) effect from which surface ablation and free-electron generation can be initiated without relying on the air spark ignition sub-model. The following tasks will be performed to accomplish the research objectives. |
| File Size | 1044075 |
| Page Count | 27 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20020058228 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9f52mp06 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2002-06-25 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lasers And Masers Thermodynamics Spark Ignition Fluid Dynamics Aluminum Free Electrons Focusing Laser Propulsion Plasma Radiation Aerothermodynamics Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |