Optimally loaded electrohydrodynamic power generator
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Authors
Biblarz, Oscar
Gawain, Theodore Henry
Subjects
Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) Power Generator
Advisors
Date of Issue
1979-10
Date
1979-10
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
By requiring that the local electrical field strength in an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) power generator be everywhere uniformly close to the critical limit, an optimum channel shape can be established. This shape is based on the one-dimensional flow of a compressible fluid into which are injected unipolar charged particles of negligible mobility. The maximum electrical work output per unit mass of fluid that can be attained in this way is shown to be greater by a factor of two than that of the best comparable channel of uniform area
Type
Technical Report
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NPS Report Number
NPS-67-79-011
Sponsors
Prepared for: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Funding
Inter Agency Agreement
No. ER-78-A-03-2122
Format
vii, 32 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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