TY - GEN
T1 - Numerical simulation of thermal and flow characteristics inside a rod type cathode (RTC) plasma torch
AU - Sundaravadivelu, K.
AU - Ng, H. W.
AU - Chai, J. C.
AU - Yu, S. C.M.
AU - Lam, Y. C.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - A mathematical modeling of argon thermal plasma flows inside a rod type cathode (RTC) plasma torch based on electromagnetic principle is presented. Numerical investigations on the model are carried out for a better understanding of its output characteristics in terms of the plasma velocity, temperature, mass fraction and electro-magnetic field calculations. A direct comparison of the present numerical results with a reported experimental data is made and found to be in fair agreement.
AB - A mathematical modeling of argon thermal plasma flows inside a rod type cathode (RTC) plasma torch based on electromagnetic principle is presented. Numerical investigations on the model are carried out for a better understanding of its output characteristics in terms of the plasma velocity, temperature, mass fraction and electro-magnetic field calculations. A direct comparison of the present numerical results with a reported experimental data is made and found to be in fair agreement.
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U2 - 10.1115/ht2003-47071
DO - 10.1115/ht2003-47071
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:1842741346
SN - 0791836959
SN - 9780791836958
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference
SP - 71
EP - 77
BT - Proceedings of the 2003 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Volume 3
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - 2003 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference (HT2003)
Y2 - 21 July 2003 through 23 July 2003
ER -