Plasma actuators are a type of actuator currently being developed for aerodynamic flow control. Plasma actuators impart force in a similar way to ionocraft...

number of plasma actuator designs. This section highlights the main technologies. The conventional single dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) actuator design...

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suggested using plasma actuator for film cooling. The film cooling of turbine blades by using a dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator was first proposed...

application to corona discharges. A common usage of this discharge is in a plasma actuator for vehicle drag reduction. It is also widely used in the web treatment...

The serpentine plasma actuator represents a broad class of plasma actuator. The actuators vary from the standard type in that their electrode geometry...

the Reattachment Downstream of a Backward-Facing Step with Surface Plasma Actuator", Paper AIAA 2015-2957 at 46th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference...

A nonthermal plasma, cold plasma or non-equilibrium plasma is a plasma which is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, because the electron temperature is...

flow.MARHy/ICARE (viviana Lago) Photo of the glow discharge with a plasma actuator.MARHy/ICARE (viviana Lago) *ICARE Laboratory, CNRS, Orléans MERIL,...

effect Hall-effect thruster Ion thruster Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Plasma actuator Thompson, Clive (August 2003). "The Antigravity Underground". Wired...

collected, yielding electrical energy. Air ioniser Ion thruster Ionocraft Plasma actuator Hall-effect thruster Magnetohydrodynamic drive Magnetoplasmadynamic...

This is a list of physicists who have worked in or made notable contributions to the field of plasma physics. Whistler (radio) waves Langmuir waves...

and differentiation) or inhibition of bacteria adhesion. Interest in plasma actuators as active flow control devices is growing rapidly due to their lack...

A plasma propulsion engine is a type of electric propulsion that generates thrust from a quasi-neutral plasma. This is in contrast with ion thruster engines...

uses a powerful magnetic field generated by external magnets to confine plasma in the shape of an axially-symmetrical torus. The tokamak is one of several...

barrier discharge actuator for vehicle drag reduction at highway speeds," AIP Advances, 6 (2016) 025322. S. Roy, C.-C. Wang, Plasma actuated heat transfer...

Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle, Serpentine geometry plasma actuator, micro-scale actuators Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754–1785), France – Rozière...

Plasma cleaning is the removal of impurities and contaminants from surfaces through the use of an energetic plasma or dielectric barrier discharge (DBD)...

For example, an actuator which uses a gear train may have some backlash, which means that if the direction of motion of the actuator reverses, there will...

device, filed October 14, 1975, issued September 6, 1977 Lift (force) Plasma actuator Radio-controlled glider Simple Plastic Airplane Design Wing Example...

thruster Nuclear electric rocket Nuclear pulse propulsion Plasma actuator Plasma propulsion engine Plasma speaker Spacecraft propulsion Jahn, Robert G. (1968)...

unsteady suction or blowing, the use of synthetic jets, valves and plasma actuators. Actuation may be pre-determined (open-loop control) or be dependent on...

they may have multiple sets of contacts controlled by the same knob or actuator, and the contacts may operate simultaneously, sequentially, or alternately...

the modelling of plasma physics and the invention of the Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle and serpentine geometry plasma actuator Meghnad Saha, physicist...

This is a list of plasma physics topics. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Physics portal G.S. Miller, E.E. Salpeter...

performance characteristics of parts like a helicopter rotor shaft, a flap actuator on a military jet, or a bearing in a jet engine. For some commercial or...

Voyager 2's scan platform experienced an anomaly causing its azimuth actuator to seize. This malfunction led to some data loss and posed challenges for...

probe. The Zond 2 spacecraft also carried six Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (PPT) that served as actuators of the attitude control system. The PPT propulsion...

direct-mount turbos with integrated exhaust manifold and electronic wastegate actuator Twin water-to-air charge coolers with one or two water pumps for the 300 hp...

metered quantity of the formulation to be dispensed with each actuation; and an actuator (or mouthpiece) which enables the patient to operate the device...