Potential performance of supersonic MHD power generators

39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Macheret, Sergey O ^a   Shneider, Mikhail N ^a   Miles, Richard B ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; ELECTRON BEAMS; HYPERSONIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; HYPERSONIC FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS; CRITICAL ISSUES; ELECTRIC POWER; HALL PARAMETERS; OPERATING CONDITION; OVERALL DESIGN; REPETITIVE PULSE; STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS;

IONIZATION;

EID: 85088180792     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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