简介:Magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)acceleratorisproposedasanextgenerationpropulsionsystem.Itcanbeusedtoincreasetheperformanceofapropulsionsystem.TheobjectiveofthisstudyistoinvestigatetheperformanceofMHDacceleratorusingnon-equilibriumairplasmaasworkinggas.Inthisstudy,thefundamentalperformanceofMHDacceleratorsuchasflowperformanceandelectricalperformanceisevaluatedatdifferentlevelsofappliedmagneticfieldusing1-Dnumericalsimulation.ThenumericalsimulationisdevelopedbasedonasetofdifferentialequationswithMHDapproximation.TosolvethissetofdifferentialequationstheMacCormackschemeisused.AspecifiedchanneldesignedanddevelopedatNASAMarshallSpaceFlightCentreisusedinthenumericalsimulation.Thecompositionofthesimulatedairplasmaconsistsofsevenspecies,namely,N2,N,O2,O,NO,NO+,ande-.Theperformanceofthenon-equilibriumMHDacceleratorisalsocomparedwiththeequilibriumMHDaccelerator.
简介:Inthispaper,thebasicequationsgoverningtheflowandheattransferofanincompressibleviscousandelectricallyconductingfluidpastasemi-infiniteverticalpermeableplateintheformofpartialdifferentialequationsarereducedtoasetofnon-linearordinarydifferentialequationsbyapplyingasuitablesimilaritytransformation.Approximatesolutionsofthetransformedequationsareobtainedbyemployingtheperturbationmethodfortwocases,i.e.,smallandlargevaluesofthesuctionparameter.Fromthenumericalevaluationsofthesolution,itcanbeseenthatthevelocityfieldatanypointdecreasesasthevaluesofthemagneticandsuctionparametersincrease.Theeffectofthemagneticparameteristoincreasethethermalboundarylayer.Itisalsofoundthatthevelocityandtemperaturefieldsdecreasewiththeincreaseinthesinkparameter.