未来吸气式磁等离子体推进系统的首次突破
First Breakthrough for Future Air-Breathing Magneto-Plasma Propulsion Systems
摘要:
实现了喷气发动机发明以来喷气推进技术的新突破。未来吸气式磁等离子体推进系统的第一次关键试验已经成功完成。在这方面,这也是第一次,捏密集等离子体聚焦放电可以在一个大气压下点燃,并在脉冲模式下使用非常快的纳秒静电激励来驱动,以诱导自组织的等离子体通道,用于点燃推进主放电。取决于电容器电压(200-600 V),在一个大气压下的能量输入从52-320 J/脉冲变化,对应于从1.2-8.0 mNs的脉冲位。这样一个每秒一千个脉冲驱动的新型脉冲等离子体推进系统已经具有现代喷气发动机的推力面积比(50-150 kN/m2)。一系列推进器可以使未来的飞机和飞艇从地面出发并到达50公里及以上的高度。所需的高功率可以由航空航天公司已经在开发的未来紧凑型等离子体聚变反应堆提供。磁等离子体压缩机本身最初是由俄罗斯科学家开发的等离子体聚变装置,后来被小型化用于超音速流量控制应用。所以第一个突破是基于一种衍生的等离子聚变技术。
英文摘要:
A new breakthrough in jet propulsion technology since the invention of the jet engine is achieved. The first critical tests for future air-breathing magneto-plasma propulsion systems have been successfully completed. In this regard, it is also the first time that a pinching dense plasma focus discharge could be ignited at one atmosphere and driven in pulse mode using very fast, nanosecond electrostatic excitations to induce self-organized plasma channels for ignition of the propulsive main discharge. Depending on the capacitor voltage (200-600 V) the energy input at one atmosphere varies from 52-320 J/pulse corresponding to impulse bits from 1.2-8.0 mNs. Such a new pulsed plasma propulsion system driven with one thousand pulses per second would already have thrust-to-area ratios (50-150 kN/m2) of modern jet engines. An array of thrusters could enable future aircrafts and airships to start from ground and reach altitudes up to 50km and beyond. The needed high power could be provided by future compact plasma fusion reactors already in development by aerospace companies. The magneto-plasma compressor itself was originally developed by Russian scientists as plasma fusion device and was later miniaturized for supersonic flow control applications. So the first breakthrough is based on a spin-off plasma fusion technology.
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