Influence of Boundary Layers of Electrical Characteristics of MHD Generators

Abstract

An analysis is made of the boundary layer effect on the electrical characteristics of a Faraday MHD generator. An electrical substitution circuit and a method for calculating its elements are proposed. An analysis is made of the local circuit for the substitution of a channel in a gas-dynamic approximation. It is noted that the questions of the flow of current through a turbulent boundary layer require careful examination. It has been shown that the existing methods for the calculation of real resistance of a boundary layer, which are based on a break in integration on a certain arbitrary boundary from the electrode, give results which are strongly dependent on the selection of this boundary.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0745245

Entities

People

  • D. D. Malyuta
  • V. P. Panchenko
  • Yu. M. Volkov

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Flow
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Current Density
  • Differential Equations
  • Electric Fields
  • Electric Generators
  • Electrical Circuits
  • Electrons
  • Equations
  • Generators
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Thermal Boundary Layer
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design