Preface

Abstract

We are pleased to present the Proceedings of 20th International Workshop on Magneto-Plasma Aerodynamics (WSMPA 2021) which was held in Moscow on May 25 – 27, 2021 at Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences (JIHT RAS).Every year this Workshop is organized by JIHT RAS under Scientific Council for Direct Energy Conversion, Scientific Council for Fluid Mechanics and Scientific Council for Low Temperature Plasma Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The second year the Workshop took place as online conference (using Zoom) due to covid-19 and therefore quarantine and travel restrictions.The objective of the Workshop is to provide forum for presentation and discussion of recent progress in science and technology on magneto-plasma aerodynamics. Analytical and experimental studies and their results of gas discharge, physics of shock waves, plasma assisted ignition and combustion, MHD energy conversion, physical gas dynamics of high-speed airflows and their applications were presented and discussed the meeting.At the 20th Workshop there were presented 57 works in profiled sections: shock waves, electrical discharges, plasma assisted ignition and combustion, plasma aerodynamics and gasdynamics, and related problems. Oral resentation time including questions was 20 minutes.33 selected articles are published in this collection of papers and we are grateful to IOP Publishing for cooperation.Valentin Bityurin, Chairman of WSMPA 2021,Tatiana Kuznetsova, Scientific Secretary of WSMPA 2021List of Program Committee and Local Committee are available in this pdf.