Performance characteristic of Faraday MHD accelerator: Effect of magnetic field to the thrust

Author

Anwari, Makbul ; Sukarsan

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai

fYear

2008

fDate

3-5 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Performance characteristic of Faraday MHD accelerator is studied in this paper. Main focus is to evaluate the effect of magnetic field to the thrust and flow performance of Faraday MHD accelerator. A one dimensional numerical simulation is performed in this simulation. The MacCormack scheme is employed to solve the set of differential equations with MHD approximations. Numerical results show the characteristics of normalized flow parameter and thrust of Faraday MHD accelerator for different value of applied magnetic field.

Keywords

Faraday effect; difference equations; magnetic field effects; magnetohydrodynamics; numerical analysis; 1D numerical simulation; Faraday MHD accelerator; MHD approximations; MacCormack scheme; differential equations; magnetic field effect; Acceleration; Accelerator magnets; Engines; Magnetic fields; Magnetohydrodynamics; Numerical simulation; Plasma accelerators; Plasma applications; Plasma devices; Propulsion; Faraday connection; Magnetic field effect; Magnetohydrodynamic; Thrust;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, 2008. VPPC '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1848-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1849-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VPPC.2008.4677758

Filename

4677758