[1] The Titan-Saturn plasma interaction is studied using a global numerical kinetic model. The developed selfconsistent three-dimensional quasi-neutral hybrid model is used to study Titan’s interaction with supersonic and subsonic plasma flow. The subsonic flow case represents Titan in the Kronian magnetosphere during the Voyager-1 flyby. The supersonic and weakly supermagnetosonic flow cases a...

In this paper, we construct various special solutions on a convergent-divergent surface for the steady compressible complete Euler system and established the stability of the purely subsonic flows. For a given pressure p0 prescribed at the “entry” of the surface, as the pressure p1 at the “exit” decreases, the flow patterns on the surface change continuously as those happen in a de Laval nozzle...

In this paper, a compensated compactness framework is established for sonic-subsonic approximate solutions to the n-dimensional(n ≥ 2) Euler equations for steady irrotational flow that may contain stagnation points. This compactness framework holds provided that the approximate solutions are uniformly bounded and satisfy H−1 loc (Ω) compactness conditions. As illustration, we show the existence...

Active flow control of cavity tones has been successful in controlling Rossiter tones in both subsonic and supersonic flows. While closed-loop control promises the lowest actuator power requirements and the ability to adapt to changing flow conditions, so far it has only been demonstrated on subsonic cavities. Suppression of Rossiter tones in supersonic cavities has been demonstrated using open...

We prove the ellipticity principle for selfsimilar potential flows for gas dynamics. We show that the interior of a pseudo-subsonic-sonic-region of a smooth solution must be pseudo-subsonic. In fact, the pseudo-Mach number is below that of a domain-dependent function which is < 1 in the interior and ≤ 1 on the boundary. Therefore the interior must stay pseudo-subsonic under homotopy of pseudo-s...

We establish the existence and stability of multidimensional steady transonic flows with transonic shocks through an infinite nozzle of arbitrary cross-sections, including a slowly varying de Laval nozzle. The transonic flow is governed by the inviscid potential flow equation with supersonic upstream flow at the entrance, uniform subsonic downstream flow at the exit at infinity, and the slip bo...

Abstract: In this paper, we establish existence of global subsonic and subsonic-sonic flows through infinitely long axially symmetric nozzles by combining variational method, various elliptic estimates and a compensated compactness method. More precisely, it is shown that there exist global subsonic flows in nozzles for incoming mass flux less than a critical value; moreover, uniformly subsonic...

This article presents the boundary conditions for the problem of turbulent supersonic gas flow in a plane channel with a perpendicular injection jets. The non-reflection boundary conditions for direct modeling of compressible viscous gases are studied. A formulation using the NSCBC (NavierStocks characteristic boundary conditions) through boundaries is derived for the subsonic inflow and subson...

A plane subsonic jet was subjected to periodic oscillations in the near nozzle region by a twin vane system. During excitation, the jet was found to spread significantly and entrain mass much more than its steady counterpart. Time averaged static pressure measured in the flow field with a disc probe exhibited prominent well defined suction regions different from that of a steady jet.