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Arcjet rocket
About: Arcjet rocket is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1121 publications have been published within this topic receiving 9687 citations. The topic is also known as: Arcjet.
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TL;DR: In this article, a method for enhancing the hydrocarbon pyrolysis process by introducing atomic hydrogen into the reaction medium from an arcjet plasma source was considered, and it was shown that hydrogen atoms could effectively be introduced by mixing under low pressure.
Abstract: A method for enhancing the hydrocarbon pyrolysis process by introducing atomic hydrogen into the reaction medium from an arcjet plasma source was considered. It was shown that hydrogen atoms could effectively be introduced by mixing under low pressure. The atomic hydrogen–stimulated methane pyrolysis process was experimentally studied in a continuous stirred reactor with a plasma plume. When hydrogen atoms were present in the plasma jet, the amount of the valuable product increased by a factor of two.
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TL;DR: In this article, a computational fluid dynamic analysis has been conducted for the thermo-chemical flow field in an arcjet thruster with mono-propellant Hydrazine (N2H4) as a working fluid.
Abstract: The computational fluid dynamic analysis has been conducted for the thermo-chemical flow field in an arcjet thruster with mono-propellant Hydrazine (N2H4) as a working fluid. The Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are modified to analyze compressible flows with the thermal radiation and electric field. The Maxwell equation, which is loosely coupled with the fluid dynamic equations through the Ohm heating and Lorentz forces, is adopted to analyze the electric field induced by the electric arc. The chemical reactions of Hydrazine were assumed to be infinitely fast due to the high temperature field inside the arcjet thruster. The chemical and the thermal radiation models for the nitrogen-hydrogen mixture and optically thick media respectively, were incorporated with the fluid dynamic equations. The results show that performance indices of the arcjet thruster with 1kW arc heating are improved by amount of 180% in thrust and 200% in specific impulse more than frozen flow. In addition to thermo-physical process inside the arcjet thruster is understood from the flow field results.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the radial current density on an MPD arcjet cathode surface is theoretically investigated for five propellants and it is found that excessive current concentration at the upstream end of the cathode occurs in the case of hydrogen.
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