Theoretical expression of magnetohydrodynamic accelerator performance with non-equilibrium plasma

Author

Qindeel, R. ; Anwari, M. ; Harada, N.

Author_Institution

Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The theoretical performance of a scramjet propulsion system in which magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accelerator is operated in a nonequilibrium environment is evaluated. MHD accelerator is an inverse process of MHD power generation, which is the interesting field of study. In MHD accelerator the electric power is converted into push work on working plasma. The numerical simulation is intended to be used for performance of MHD accelerator with air-plasma as working gas. The fundamental performance of MHD accelerator with nonequilibrium plasma was evaluated using one-dimensional numerical simulation. It was confirmed after analysis that working gas was successfully accelerated by Lorentz force.

Keywords

plasma accelerators; plasma magnetohydrodynamics; plasma simulation; 1D numerical simulation; Lorentz force; MHD power generation; air-plasma working gas; magnetohydrodynamic accelerator; nonequilibrium plasma; scramjet propulsion system; Acceleration; Accelerator magnets; Lorentz covariance; Magnetohydrodynamic power generation; Numerical simulation; Plasma accelerators; Plasma simulation; Power generation; Propulsion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science - Abstracts, 2009. ICOPS 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2617-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2009.5227278

Filename

5227278