“STRING” TYPE OF BARRIERLESS PLASMA CHEMICAL REACTOR FOR GENERATION OZONE FROM AIR

The efficiency of ozone generation for barrierless plasma chemical reactors with different cathode designs was compared. The characteristics of ozone generation for a plasma chemical reactor with a string-type cathode in comparison with the previously developed star-shaped cathode for different combinations of bias and pulsed components of voltage have been investigated. The special feature of the operation of a plasma-chemical reactor with a string cathode is revealed. There is consisting in the absence of dependence of the transition of the discharge combustion mode into the spark breakdown phase from the presence of a bias voltage.

Effects of Jet Induced by String-type Plasma Actuator on Flow Around Three-Dimensional Bluff Body and Drag Force

An experimental investigation of active flow control on a three-dimensional (3D) curved surface bluff body was conducted by using a string-type plasma actuator. The 3D bluff body model tested in this study was composed of a quarter sphere and a half cylinder, and the Reynolds number based on the diameter of half cylinder was set at 1.3 × 104. The modulation drive was adopted for flow control, and the control effects of variations in dimensionless burst frequency (fm+) normalized by the width of the model and freestream velocity were studied. Velocity distributions analyzed by particle image velocimetry showed that the recirculation region behind the model shrank due to the flow control. The static pressure distributions on the back surface of the model tended to decrease under any fm+ set in this study, especially in the ranges of 0.40 ≤ fm+ ≤ 0.64. The drag coefficient reached its maximum value under the similar ranges of fm+. Although the aerodynamic wake sharpening was observed due to the flow control, the entrainment of separated flow into the back surface of the model was enhanced. This scenario of wake manipulation was considered to be responsible for increasing drag acting on the model.

SYNTHESIS OF QUASI BAND LADDER TRANSFORMING HIGH ORDER FILTERS

The purpose of the work, the results of which are presented in the article, was to develop a computerized mathematical model of the ladder filter to study the features of the synthesis of matching chains of any order on its basis. To achieve this goal, all the synthesis tasks were solved, including the choice of the prototype, frequency transposition, calculation of the poles of the transfer function of the prototype, calculation of the poles of the transfer function of the filter, calculation of the reflection coefficient of the filter, the calculation of the input resistance of the filter, the implementation of the ladder chain by the Cauer method and denormalization of the values of the elements of the ladder chain. Modeling of characteristics of ladder filters of any high order with frequency characteristic of Chebyshev on the computer with 32-bit operating system is carried out. It is shown that the use of standard mathematics leads to a significant increase in the error of matching of loads at increasing the order of the chain. To increase the accuracy of calculations it is proposed to use software that allows implementing mathematical operations on variables with any length of the mantissa. There are computer libraries where numbers are presented in the form of string type variables and arithmetic operations are carried out on them according to school rules “ in a column ” . Once the calculations are completed, the strings are converted back to normal numbers. The article considers the application of the variant of BigNumber library for high level JavaScript language. To estimate the accuracy of the calculation it is proposed to apply the property of antimetric ladder structure. From the presented results of the calculation it follows that in order to obtain not less than 15 reliable digits after the decimal point for the parameters of the n-th order filter it is necessary to increase the length of the variable mantissa to the value 2n.

Tip Leakage Flow Reduction of a Linear Turbine Cascade Using String-Type DBD Plasma Actuators

Tip leakage flow through the small gap between the blade tip of a turbine and the casing endwall reduces the aerodynamic performance. String-type dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma actuators made of silicone printed-circuit board were used for the active control of the tip leakage flow of a linear turbine cascade. Sinusoidal voltage excitation with amplitude varying from 4 kV to 6 kV (peak-to-peak voltage: 8 kVp-p to 12 kVp-p) and fixed frequency of 10 kHz was applied to the plasma actuators. The two-dimensional velocity field in the blade passage was estimated by particle image velocimetry (PIV) under the very low Reynolds number conditions of Re = 7.1 × 103 and 1.42 × 104. The tip leakage flow was reduced by the flow control using plasma actuators. The high turbulence intensity region caused by the tip leakage flow was also reduced. For the quantitative comparisons, the displacement thickness of the absolute velocity distributions was examined. By the flow control of the plasma actuators, the displacement thickness at tip-side gradually decreased as the input voltage increased. Although three types of plasma actuators were used, with thin, thick, and flat electrodes and different ratios of discharge area, the differences in their effect were negligible. The reason for these very small differences in effect is the wide spread of the plasma discharge from the encapsulated electrode in the plasma actuator to the exposed electrode of the blade tip. At the relatively high Reynolds number condition of Re = 1.42 × 104, the effect of the plasma actuator was smaller than that at the lower Reynolds number condition of Re = 7.1 × 103.