Operation Characteristics of Laser Driven Plasma Wind Tunnel

A Shock Tube Driven Transonic Wind Tunnel

A small transonic wind tunnel was designed, constructed and calibrated in order to provide a tool for the study and demonstration of transonic flow phenomena. The wind tunnel makes use of flow properties following the propagation of a shock wave along a tube in order to create the transonic flow. This is in contrast to conventional transonic facilities which are supplied from a reservoir or com...

Calibrated cylindrical Mach probe in a plasma wind tunnel.

A simple cylindrical Mach probe is described along with an independent calibration procedure in a magnetized plasma wind tunnel. A particle orbit calculation corroborates our model. The probe operates in the weakly magnetized regime in which probe dimension and ion orbit are of the same scale. Analytical and simulation models are favorably compared with experimental calibration.

A Data-Driven, Cooperative Approach for Wind Farm Control: A Wind Tunnel Experimentation

This paper discusses a data-driven, cooperative control strategy to maximize wind farm power production. Conventionally, every wind turbine in a wind farm is operated to maximize its own power production without taking into account the interactions between the wind turbines in a wind farm. Because of wake interference, such greedy control strategy can significantly lower the power production of...

Laboratory sources of turbulent plasma: a unique MHD plasma wind tunnel

Turbulence has been studied in laboratory plasmas for decades. Magnetic and electrostatic turbulence fluctuations have been implicated in degraded confinement in fusion devices so understanding turbulent transport is critical for those devices. The externally applied magnetic field in most laboratory plasmas has a strong effect on the character of the turbulence (particularly parallel and perpe...

Laser-driven plasma-wave electron accelerators