Fluerics: 33. Design and Staging of Laminar Proportional Amplifiers

Abstract

The report discusses the design and staging of a laminar flueric proportional amplifier with a pressure gain greater than 15, a dynamic range of over 1000, and a bandwidth ranging from 100 to 1000 Hz depending on the supply pressure. By scaling with Reynolds number based on channel depth, several of these elements have been connected in series to form a three-stage, open-loop gain block with a pressure gain greater than 1000, a dynamic range of over 400, and a bandwidth greater than 100 Hz. The output of the amplifier itself and of the gain block has a flat saturation characteristics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0751182

Entities

People

  • Francis M. Manion
  • George Mon

Organizations

  • Harry Diamond Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Boundary Layer
  • Dynamic Range
  • Dynamic Response
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Control
  • Fluidic Amplifiers
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Response
  • Laminar Flow
  • Measurement
  • Photographs
  • Reynolds Number
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics.