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Compensating parasitic hall currents in a MHD generator having temperature inhomogeneity in the plasma flow

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The inhomogeneity parameter is examined as a function of the variation in current density over the cross section. It is pointed out that this parameter can be determined without measuring the conductivity in the cross section.

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  1. High-Temperatures Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

    A. A. Beloglazov & B. M. Berkovskii

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 804–808, May, 1984.

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Beloglazov, A.A., Berkovskii, B.M. Compensating parasitic hall currents in a MHD generator having temperature inhomogeneity in the plasma flow. Journal of Engineering Physics 46, 583–586 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00828041

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