Progress in Plasma Processing of Materials, 1999
ISBN Print: 1-56700-126-2
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A CUTTING AIR PLASMA TORCH AND COMPARISON WITH SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS
DOI: 10.1615/ITPPC-1998.210
pages 135-140
Abstract
This paper presents a comparison between theoretical and experimental studies in a cutting
plasma torch. Calculations were made with a laminar compressible model with supersonic
flows. By using visible spectroscopy we measured densities and temperatures from time
integrated luminosities, that were corrected from the effect of plasma fluctuations.