Three-dimensional potential and current distributions in a hall generator with assumed velocity profiles /
N. Stankiewicz and R.W. Palmer.

Description

Main Author

Stankiewicz, N.

Related Names

Palmer, R. W.
Lewis Research Center.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Language(s)

English

Published

Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration : 1972.

Subjects

Hall generators.
Electric power production > Electric power production / Magnetohydrodynamic generation.
Magnetohydrodynamic generators.

Summary

Three-dimensional potential and current distributions in a Faraday segmented MHD generator operating in the Hall mode are computed. Constant conductivity and a Hall parameter of 1.0 is assumed. The electric fields and currents are assumed to be coperiodic with the electrode structure. The flow is assumed to be fully developed and a family of power-law velocity profiles, ranging from parabolic to turbulent, is used to show the effect of the fullness of the velocity profile. Calculation of the square of the current density shows that nonequilibrium heating is not likely to occur along the boundaries. This seems to discount the idea that the generator insulating walls are regions of high conductivity and are therefore responsible for boundary-layer shorting, unless the shorting is a surface phenomenon on the insulating material.

Physical Description

32 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

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