Proceedings of the Fluid Amplification Symposium held on 26-28 May 1964. Volume 2

Abstract

Contents: The impact modulator; some properties and applications of direct and transverse impact modulators; control characteristics of vortex valves; experimental study of a proportional vortex fluid amplifier; characteristics of a vortex fluid throttle; characteristics of counter-vortex oscillators; application techniques for proportional pure fluid amplifiers; static design of pneumatic logic circuits; application of pure fluid logic to on-off control systems; theoretical analysis of fluid amplifier design; the turbulence amplifier in control systems; multiple-ball pneumatic amplifiers; the staging of pressure proportional amplifiers to provide stable, medium gain, dual control, single output pure fluid systems; development of a proportional fluid amplifier for multi-stage operation; experiments in analog computation with fluids; a fluid encoding system; feasibility study of a fluid amplifier steam turbine speed control; applications of pure fluid techniques to a speed control; a pure fluid hydrofoil control system; a status report on the experimental development of a hot gas valve; development of two pure fluid timers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0601500

Entities

Organizations

  • Harry Diamond Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Circuit Analysis
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Logic Gates
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Secondary Flow
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Technology.
  • Robotics and Automation.