RADIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE POSITION OF THE ARC IN A PLASMATRON

V. L. Dzyuba and G. S. Kalyuzhnyi

UDC 537.527

The radial-distribution function of the position of the 
arc in a plasmatron of an axial scheme with gas-vortex stabilization 
has been determined from the results of standard measurements of the 
radial pulsations of the projection of the arc. A model allowing explanation 
of the displacement of the distribution maximum from the axis of the 
discharge chamber with increase in the current has been proposed. 
Based on this model, the condition for the discharge-channel radius 
with which gas-vortex stabilization is efficient has been obtained.

Vladimir Dal' East-Ukrainian National University, 2a Molodezhnyi 
Kvartal, Lugansk, 91034, Ukraine. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 77, No. 4, pp. 96-99, July-August, 2004. Original 
article submitted September 22, 2003.