- 담당교수 : Prof. Bernard Parent
- 실험실 전화번호 : 051-510-3118
- 실험실 위치 : 12102-Eng. Bldg. No. 12
- 홈페이지 : http://bernardparent.ca/
Our research laboratory specializes in the numerical simulation of plasma & reactive flows such as those used in flow control, in plasma-assisted combustion, in plasma-based fuel reforming, as well as in plasma medicine. The plasma technologies here considered can improve the performance of aircraft either through Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) actuators to increase the critical angle of attack of airfoils and to anchor flames in fuel-lean mixtures, or through gliding arcs to transform a hydrocarbon fuel into hydrogen to be consumed by fuel cells, or through Magneto Hydro Dynamics (MHD) devices to generate power or to prevent shock-induced boundary-layer separation. In our laboratory, we aim to improve the efficiency of the numerical methods and models needed to simulate plasma & reactive flows as well as to use such methods and models along with our CFD code WARP to design more efficient DBD and MHD devices.
최근 연구과제
- Power Generation Aboard Aircraft Using MHD
- Control of Shock-Induced Boundary-Layer Separation Using Plasmas
- Further development of the Weakly-ionized Airflow Resolver and Post-processor (WARP) code:
(a) further development of a new computationally-efficient plasma aerodynamics model in collaboration with Dr. Mikhail Shneider from Princeton University and Prof. Sergey Macheret from Purdue University;
(b) further development of higher-order truly multidimensional finite-volume schemes;
(c) implementation of large-eddy-simulation. - Numerical simulations of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) actuators to control boundary layer on subsonic airfoils:
(a) with and without e-beam ionization;
(b) direct-current versus alternative-current. - Numerical simulations of MHD accelerator to improve efficiency of turbojet engines:
(a) ionization created through potassium/cesium seeding versus ebeam;
(b) Faraday versus diagonal configurations;
(c) impact of unsteady striation phenomena at high Hall parameter. - Numerical simulations of MHD generator to generate power aboard ramjets and scramjets:
(a) with potassium/cesium seeding and with ebeam ionization;
(b) Faraday versus diagonal configurations.