Analytical and experimental studies of the helical magnetohydrodynamic thruster design

Conference · Sat Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:404166

Gilbert, II, J B; Lin, T F ^[1]

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1. Pennsylvania State Univ., State College, PA (United States). Applied Research Lab.

This paper describes the results of analytical and experimental studies of a helical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) seawater thruster using a 8-Tesla (T) solenoid magnet. The application of this work is in marine vehicle propulsion. Analytical models are developed to predict the performance of the helical MHD thruster in a closed-loop condition. The analytical results are compared with experimental data and good agreement is obtained.

• OSTI ID: 404166
• Report Number(s): CONF-940409-; ISBN 1-880653-10-9; TRN: IM9652%%26
• Resource Relation: Conference: 4. international conference on offshore and polar engineering, Osaka (Japan), 10-15 Apr 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of The proceedings of the fourth (1994) international offshore and polar engineering conference. Volume 3; Chung, J.S. [ed.] [Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)]; Maeda, Hisaaki [ed.] [Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)]; Naito, Shigeru [ed.] [Osaka Univ. (Japan)]; Ikeda, Yoshiho [ed.] [Univ. of Osaka Prefecture, Osaka (Japan)]; PB: 606 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION
SHIPS
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
CLOSED-CYCLE MHD GENERATORS
THRUSTERS
MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SEAWATER