HVEPS Scramjet-Driven MHD Power Demonstration Test Results (Preprint)

Abstract

The Air Force sponsored Hypersonic Vehicle Electric Power System (HVEPS) program was a research program to develop scramjet driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power for an advanced high power, airborne electric power system. This program has been active for the past five years with various technical tasks being addressed that have encompassed engineering investigations of a myriad of technical issues related to airborne hypersonic MHD power system integration and operation. The integrated scramjet-driven MHD power demonstration ground test program was successfully accomplished in December 2006. The MHD power demonstration tests were conducted in the UTRC scramjet test cell wherein modifications to the test cell were made to install an in-line, direct fired MHD generator test article downstream of the facility's scramjet combustor.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA471429

Entities

People

  • J. H. Castro
  • J. M. Donohue
  • J. T. Lineberry
  • L. Begg
  • Ron J. Litchford

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Combustion
  • Combustors
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Electric Power
  • Electrical Conductivity
  • Engineering
  • Engines
  • Generators
  • Heat Transfer
  • Hypersonic Vehicles
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Static Pressure
  • Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Engines
  • Test Facilities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Technology.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow