抄録
Plasmas are a typical example of functional fluids under the magnetic field. In the area of fluids engineering the behavior of plasma flow under the strong magnetic field is an attractive subject because of their characteristics of the high enthalpy flow and the luminosity. To realize the development of new plasma technology, it is important to study the effect of strong magnetic field on plasma jet. From this point of view, an experimental study was conducted to examine the effect of strong field induced by superconducting magnet on argon plasma jet. The jet images were taken by a digital camera through the viewing windows. The images of radial distribution of number density were also drawn by using the image processing based on the Abel-inversion. It is confirmed from the comparison with numerical results that these images are utilized for understanding the plasma jet characteristics.
