• DocumentCode
    2284782
  • Title

    Thrust origin in EHD lifters

  • Author

    Zhao, Lin ; Liaw, Teck-Meng

  • Author_Institution
    Gannon Univ., Erie, PA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    9-13 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    This paper1 presents the results of the analytical and experimental studies of thrust origin in electrohydrodynamic lifters. It was found that the thrust is the reactive force to the force driving the EHD flow when the electric corona discharge takes place. The results of the experiments confirmed that the thrust is mainly applied on the ground electrode and the net force on the corona wire is negative. The configuration of the lifter affects the thrust but simply increasing the number of corona wires won´t increase the thrust.
  • Keywords
    corona; electrohydrodynamics; plasma devices; plasma transport processes; EHD flow analysis; electric corona discharge; electrohydrodynamic lifter; lifter configuration; negative corona wire; reactive force analysis; Corona; Electrodes; Foot; Iron; Corona discharge; Electrohydrodynamic flow; lifter;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • ISSN
    0197-2618
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9498-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IAS.2011.6074272
  • Filename
    6074272