MEASUREMENT OF FLUID PROPERTIES FOR MAGNETOPLASMADYNAMIC POWER GENERATORS

Abstract

Contents: Resume of Progress; The Allison Diagnostic Closed Loop MPD Device--final assembly and leak testing, first check-out runs; Diagnostic Methods--spectroscopic technique for temperature or pressure measurement in plasmas, error consideration; calculation and measurement of radial distribution of line broadening in a cesium plasma, mathematical method, application; Theoretical Plasma Properties.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 21, 1963
Accession Number
AD0424152

Entities

People

  • H. E. Wilhelm
  • R. T. Schneider
  • W. Woerner

Organizations

  • General Motors

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Detectors
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Equations
  • High Temperature
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Line Spectra
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Radiation
  • Spectra
  • Spectral Lines
  • Spectroscopy
  • Stainless Steel
  • Water Vapor

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Plasma Physics.