INVESTIGATION MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC WAVES. VOLUME 3. EXPERIMENTS

Abstract

This report is one of a series of three volumes reporting the following work: The investigation of factors influencing the creation, progagation and detection of a type of magnetohydrodynamic wave, the Alfven wave, that can exist in a partially ionized, low density medium. The theoretical aspects of MHD waves, as might be generated under ionospheric conditions and excited in a simulated environment, are covered in Volume II. This report describes the experimental design and subsequent test results of wave propagation experiments in three plasma facilities, a hypervelocity impulse tunnel, and electromagnetic shock tube and an arc discharge tube. Volume 1 of this series provides the reader with a brief summary of Volumes 2 and 3.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 30, 1963
Accession Number
AD0429154

Entities

People

  • C. D. Joerger

Organizations

  • McDonnell Aircraft Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Air Gaps
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Electric Arcs
  • Ionization
  • Magnetic Detectors
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Refractive Index
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Shock Tubes
  • Transducers
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow