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

Sinopsis

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.