CALCULATION OF THE VELOCITY OF A PLASMA FLOW IN THE NOZZLE 
EXIT SECTION OF A COAXIAL-ELECTRODE HALL ACCELERATOR

I. A. Anoshko and V. S. Ermachenko

UDC 621.384.6

The velocity of a plasma jet in the nozzle exit section 
and the pressure in the discharge zone of a coaxial-electrode Hall 
accelerator have been calculated on the basis of the experimentally 
measured enthalpy, temperature, and electron concentration near the 
indicated section within the framework of a model of the magnetic 
hydrodynamics of a plasma flow.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, 
No. 3, pp. 102-108, May-June, 2006. Original article submitted 
July 19, 2004; revision submitted August 4, 2005.