ISSN:
1432-0630
Keywords:
52.30
;
52.80
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
Abstract An argon arc, burning between two horizontal, plane-parallel, insulating plates, is bent circularily by an external and its own magnetic field. Except for the small electrode zone, one gets a stationary radially free full circle arc for experimental investigations of magnetohydrodynamic and thermodynamic effects under well defined conditions. The local temperature distributions in the arc cross-section are detected spectroscopically as functions of the arc current and the arc radius or curvature, respectively. By means of the basic equations of conservation of energy, mass, and charge and the known transport properties of argon at atmospheric pressure, the mass flow field in the arc is evaluated. In the arc core it follows the direction of the Lorentz force radially outward counter-balancing the tendency of the curved arc to move inwards thermodynamically. Due to the symmetry to the centre-plane of the arc chamber and the vanishing net flow for the whole system, the gas flow has to stream back in the cold outer arc zones, thereby forming a double whirl. By reasons of the experimental arrangement even a quadruple whirl occurs. Additionally the evaluation yields the specific radiationu(T) of argon being compared with results in the recent literature.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00902990
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