Effect of load segmentation on the performance of a nonequilibrium disk MHD generator

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 5 II, 2002, Pages 1999-2004

  Murakami, Tomoyuki ^a   Okamura, Tetsuji ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonequilibrium MHD generator; Plasma behavior; Segmented load condition

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; ELECTRODES; ENTHALPY; FLUID DYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE; PLASMAS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

ISENTROPIC EFFICIENCY; LOAD SEGMENTATION; PLASMA FLUID;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC POWER GENERATION;

EID: 0036826722     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.805325     Document Type: Article

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