Design description and performance predictions for the first CDIF power train
Abstract
The paper considers the range of inlet plasma conditions to the supersonic MHD power channel for the CDIF power train and describes the features of a slagging combustor that produces these conditions. Channel performance characteristics are predicted including the diagonal and Faraday regimes; the major engineering features of the flow train components are described with emphasis on the MHD channel; the channel gas dynamic conditions are presented, including the distributions of static pressure, Mach number, conductivity, current density, and electric field.
- Publication:
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18th Symposium on the Engineering Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979seam.procQ....E
- Keywords:
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- Channel Flow;
- Combustion Chambers;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Generators;
- Performance Prediction;
- Supersonic Diffusers;
- Energy Technology;
- Scaling Laws;
- Shear Stress;
- Test Facilities;
- Wall Flow;
- Plasma Physics