A prototype of a single-gap glass Resistive Plate Chamber
(RPC) is constructed by the authors. To find the requirements for
better operation of the detector's gas system, we have simulated the
flow of the Argon gas through the detector by using computational
fluid dynamic methods. Simulations show that the pressure inside the
chamber linearly depends on the gas flow rate and the chamber's
output hose length. The simulation results were compatible with
experiments. We have found that the pressure-driven speed of the gas
molecules is two orders of magnitude larger in the inlet and outlet
regions than the blocked corners of a 14 × 14 cm2
chamber, and most likely the difference in speed is higher for
larger detectors and different geometries.
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