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During the spacecraft from geospace penetrating into the atmosphere, a plasma sheath can be formed around its external surface due to shock heating which subsequently leads the radio communications between the space vehicle and ground-based stations to interrupt, i.e. the blackout problem happens. Many techniques have been developed to mitigate the blackout problem, and the attachment chemicals releasing is considered as an effective method. Previously, halogenides and water have been widely investigated both theoretically and experimentally. In this work, we report the mitigation of the reentry plasma sheath through releasing carbon dioxide, in which the electron density is reduced through different mechanisms and processes from the releasing halogenides. Controlled experiments are performed to investigate the carbon dioxide released in the arc wind tunnel and the high-frequency plasma wind tunnel. Results suggest that the electron density can be significantly reduced in the simulated plasma sheath environment, which provides a potential approach to solving the communication blackout problem encounterin the reentry process.
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Keywords:
- plasma sheath /
- carbon dioxide /
- plasma density
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Ou D B, Chen, L Z, Dong Y H, Lin X, Li F, Yu X L 2015 J. Exp. Fluid Mech. 29 62 (in Chinese)
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图 1 实验设计示意图
Figure 1. Schematic of experimental setup.
图 4 二氧化碳释放前后电子密度下降
Figure 4. Reduction of the electron density in the HF discharge wind tunnel through releasing carbon dioxide.
图 2 二氧化碳释放前(3—10 s)和释放后(12—18 s)电子密度随时间的变化, 展示了两车次实验(EXP1和EXP2)
Figure 2. Evolution of the electron density prior (3–10 s) and after the carbon dioxide injection (12–18 s). Two experiments are shown here (EXP1 and EXP2).
图 3 不同状态下电子密度降低效果
Figure 3. Effect of electron density reduction in different states.
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[1] Rybak J P 1970 Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory Contractor Report AFCRL-70-0707
[2] Fuhs A 1963 AIAA/Northwestern University Fifth Biennial Gas Dynamics Symposium 379 14
Google Scholar
[3] Keidar M, Kim M, Boyd I D 2008 J. Spacecr. Rockets 45 445
Google Scholar
[4] Rybak J P, Churchill R J 1971 IEEE Tran. Aerosp. Electron. Syst. 5 879
Google Scholar
[5] Gregoire D J, Santoru J, Schumacher R W 1992 Air Force Office Of Scientific ResearchReport HAC-REF-G8200
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[20] 欧东斌, 陈连忠, 董永晖, 林鑫, 李飞, 余西龙 实验流体力学 29 62
Ou D B, Chen, L Z, Dong Y H, Lin X, Li F, Yu X L 2015 J. Exp. Fluid Mech. 29 62 (in Chinese)
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