Flow of Two-Temperature Plasma in the Channel of a Disk-Type Magnetohydrodynamic Generator Under Consideration of Non-Equilibrium Ionization and Recombination Reactions.

Steady, supersonic, one-dimensional flow of a partially ionized two-temperature plasma in the channel of a disk-type MHD generator is considered, the ionization and recombination reactions being considered for the case of cesium-seeded argon plasma. Detailed formulation of the problem was given in a previous study (see EI 1971 p 3580) together with an investigation of the flow in absence of ionization and recombination reactions and in presence of equilibrium reactions.