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Magnetohydrodynamic augmented propulsion experiment
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Litchford, Ron J. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Description | Over the past several years, efforts have been under way to design and develop an operationally flexible research facility for investigating the use of cross-field MHD accelerators as a potential thrust augmentation device for thermal propulsion systems. The baseline configuration for this high-power experimental facility utilizes a 1.5-MWe multi-gas arc-heater as a thermal driver for a 2-MWe MHD accelerator, which resides in a large-bore 2-tesla electromagnet. A preliminary design study using NaK seeded nitrogen as the working fluid led to an externally diagonalized segmented MHD channel configuration based on an expendable heat-sink design concept. The current status report includes a review of engineering/design work and performance optimization analyses and summarizes component hardware fabrication and development efforts, preliminary testing results, and recent progress toward full-up assembly and testing |
| File Size | 7268127 |
| Page Count | 43 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20080033025 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9n34tr7w |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2008-05-30 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Propulsion And Power Magnetohydrodynamics Propulsion System Performance Arc Heating Thrust Augmentation Working Fluids Research Facilities Heat Sinks Crossed Fields Propulsion System Configurations Design Optimization Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
