POLYNOMIAL GAS FLOW REGULATORS

Abstract

The design principles for a gas flow regulator which produces prescribed time dependent mass flow rates of gas are stated. The principles are discussed in terms of a passive system of tanks which are connected in series by sonic throttles. Each tank produces one term of a temporal polynomial. Certain considerations prevent this being made into a practical device. Alternate systems based on the same principles but using programable regulators instead of the tanks are described. One such system was built and tested. It produced a satisfactory sixthdegree polynomial substitute for a prescribed exponentially increasing gas flow rate program for a 600-kilowatt, two-arc plasma facility.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 04, 1965
Accession Number
AD0464305

Entities

People

  • R. F. Mayo
  • T. A. Barr

Organizations

  • United States Army Aviation and Missile Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Supplies
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Flow Rate
  • Gas Flow
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Mass
  • Mass Flow
  • Polynomials
  • Pressure Regulators
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Regulators
  • Security

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Materials Science
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.