Investigation of a Mach 3 Cold Air MHD Channel Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • An experimental investigation has been performed using short duration, high repetition rate, high voltage (2 ns, 100 kHz, ~10 kV/cm) pulses to ionize a Mach 3 air flow. The wind-tunnel was placed in a 5 Tesla magnetic field. A volume filling, cold, supersonic, non-equilibrium plasma was created. The electrical properties of the resultant MHD channel were investigated. Power extraction via MHD effects is demonstrated in the cold, supersonic, unseeded air flow.

name of conference

  • 34th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference

published proceedings

  • 34th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference

author list (cited authors)

  • Murray, R., Zaidi, S., Kline, J., Shneider, M., Macheret, S., & Miles, R.

citation count

  • 8

complete list of authors

  • Murray, Robert||Zaidi, Sohail||Kline, John||Shneider, Mikhail||Macheret, Sergey||Miles, Richard

publication date

  • June 2003