FLUERICS: 19. LOW-PRESSURE AMPLIFIER AND ANALOG COMPUTER.
Abstract
The report describes the design and performance of flueric operational amplifiers and integrators. The amplifier gains and integrator rate gains are shown to depend only upon the passive circuitry. First- and second-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients have been solved effectively with these computing devices. Less than 2-percent deviation resulted between the computed and calculated first-order solutions. Computation of the second-order equations with damping greater than 0.8 also showed errors of 2 percent or less. With damping less than 0.8 but greater than 0.4, the error was less than 5 percent; with lighter damping including zero damping, the error was 8 percent or less. Also included are suggestions for improving system accuracy and expanding the state-of-the-art for flueric computing systems. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0635227
Entities
People
- Thomas J. Lechner