Power plants – Reaction motor – Electric – nuclear – or radiated energy fluid heating means
Patent
1996-07-24
1999-05-11
Freay, Charles G.
Power plants
Reaction motor
Electric, nuclear, or radiated energy fluid heating means
21912148, 2191215, F03H1/00
Patent
active
059015519
ABSTRACT:
There is provided an anode for an electrothermal arcjet thruster. A conduit running through the anode body has a converging upstream portion and a diverging downstream portion connected by a constrictor portion having a greater diameter at the interface with the upstream portion than at the interface with the downstream portion. As the result, the cross-sectional area available to a propellant gas passing through the constrictor constantly decreases and the propellent gas velocity continually increases. This constrictor geometry allows the arcjet thruster to be operated at a lower mass flow rate increasing the obtainable specific energy.
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Freay Charles G.
Kim Ted
Primex Technologies Inc.
Rosenblatt Gregory S.
Slate William B.
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