Plasma-fluid behavior of a less divergent disk magnetohydrodynamic generator using helium - Cesium

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4 III, 2004, Pages 1752-1759

  Murakami, Tomoyuki ^a   Yamasaki, Hiroyushi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENTHALPY; HALL EFFECT; HELIUM; IONIZATION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC CONVERTERS; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA STABILITY; RADIATION EFFECTS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TEMPERATURE;

CESIUM SEEDED HELIUM; DISK MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC GENERATOR; ENTHALPY EXTRACTION RATIO; GENERATOR PERFORMANCE; IONIZED SEED CONDITION; LESS DIVERGENT CHANNEL; LOW SEED FRACTION; PLASMA FLUID BEHAVIOR;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 7244237916     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.833384     Document Type: Article

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