EXPERIMENTAL-STATISTICAL INVESTIGATION OF HEAT EXCHANGE IN A CYLINDRICAL MIXING CHAMBER OF A THREE-JET PLASMA REACTOR
O. O. Yas'ko, A. L. Mosse, A. F. Bublievskii, A. V. Gorbunov, E. I. Yurinok, and E. M. Ermolaeva UDC 537.523.5:536.24 Results of experimental investigation of the heat exchange in a plasma module which incorporates a mixing chamber and three plasmatrons operating on it are generalized by the methods of physical modeling with the use of regression analysis. It is shown that the heat exchange in such a system is determined by the processes occurring in arc heaters. The most substantial influence is exerted by convection and radiation. A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus; email: mosse@ptlab.itmo.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 163-170, January-February, 2002. Original article submitted April 18, 2001. JEPTER7492020025 JEPTER749205