MULTICRITERIAL OPTIMIZATION OF THE OPERATION
AND DESIGN PARAMETERS OF ELECTRIC-ARC
PLASMATRONS OF LINEAR CIRCUITS

O. V. Zhilinskii, T. V. Laktyushina, and
A. N. Laktyushin

UDC 621.387.143

A new method of design synthesis of electric arc heaters 
by prescribed characteristics is suggested. The method has been applied 
for multicriterial optimization of the conditions of burning an arc 
with longitudinal eddy stabilization by an air flow in a plasmatron 
channel.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 6, pp. 25-28, November-December, 2002. 
Original article submitted April 25, 2002.

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