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Impact of non-equilibrium radiation in a high-enthalpy inductively coupled plasma wind tunnel
Sanjeev Kumar, Sung Min Jo, Alessandro Munafò +1
High-power inductively coupled plasma (ICP) wind tunnels are widely used to reproduce high-enthalpy environments relevant to atmospheric entry and hypersonic testing. Despite their…
From Coils to Surface Recession: Multiphysics Simulation of Ablation in ICP Wind Tunnels
Sanjeev Kumar, Alessandro Munafo, Blaine Vollmer +4
This work presents a multi-solver, coupled computational framework for predicting the thermo-chemical material response of thermal protection systems in inductively coupled plasma…
Numerical analysis of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic effects in an inductively coupled plasma wind tunnel
Sanjeev Kumar, Alessandro Munafo, Daniel J Bodony +1
This paper introduces a three-dimensional model for the 350 kW Plasmatron X inductively coupled plasma facility at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, designed for testing…
Multi-domain analysis and prediction of the light emitted by an inductively coupled plasma jet
Lorenzo Capponi, Alberto Padovan, Gregory S. Elliott +3
Inductively coupled plasma wind tunnels are crucial for replicating hypersonic flight conditions in ground testing. Achieving the desired conditions (e.g., stagnation-point heat fl…