Browsing Gas Turbine Laboratory Reports by Subject "Breakdown (Electricity)"

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    • Collapse of the inter-electrode breakdown arc in the magnetic field direction 

      Oliver, David A. (David Anthony), 1939- (Cambridge : Gas Turbine Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [1975], 1975)
      A two-dimensional inter-electrode breakdown arc which is uniform in the magnetic field direction is shown to be unstable. The growth time for the instability is of the order of the arc development time. It is unlikely that ...

    • The prediction of inter-electrode breakdown in magnetohydrodynamic generators 

      Oliver, David A. (David Anthony), 1939- (Cambridge, Mass. : Gas Turbine Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [1974], 1974)
      Introduction: In this paper, a method of calculation of inter-electrode electrical breakdown phenomena in magnetohydrodynamic generators is presented. Interelectrode breakdown is observed to occur in experimental MHD ...