COMPARISON OF MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF A PLASMA PLUME WITH OUTCOMES OF SPACE EXPERIMENTS.

In the report the comparison of outcomes of different space experiments using onboard plasma sources with outcomes of calculations of plasma plume characteristics and an interaction between plasma plumes and space craft elements is presented. In calculations the physical features of both model of plume expansion and an interaction of a plasma plume with conductive and non-conductive surfaces, and also the propagation of radio waves through a large-scale anisotropic plasma non-uniformity were taken into account. The good quantitative consent of theoretical and experimental results is obtained.