Preliminary Design of a Reuseable PPMHD (Pulsed Plasma MHD) Power Supply Test Bed Facility

摘要

This report describes a preliminary design of a reuseable pulsed plasma Magnetohydrodynamic, (PPMHD) power supply test bed facility that operates in the gigawatt/megajoule regime. The current status of PPMHD component technologies is described as a basis for present and future hardware designs. This includes a discussion of an approach to self-excited operation which is an extension of demonstrated component technologies. Size scaling relations are presented for estimating PPMHD power supply weights in terms of electrical output power and energy. (Author)