Skipjack wrote:Well they allegedly got it to work in a small scale prototype by using explosives.
Scaling this up may become a challenge though.
More than scaling is the application that is different.
I knew that the test was done with water at still and uniform temperature.
My main concern is that the timing of the propagation of the wave in a rotating bi-component fluid that undergoes quick variations of its thermal gradient cannot be reached in such a way to allow a steady pulsed operation.
That is unless the pulsed is measured in terms of several minutes to give to the fluid the possibility to reach an equilibrium. Doing it once per second is going to be really tricky, if feasible at all.
Skipjack wrote:Well they allegedly got it to work in a small scale prototype by using explosives.
Scaling this up may become a challenge though.
More than scaling is the application that is different.
I knew that the test was done with water at still and uniform temperature.
My main concern is that the timing of the propagation of the wave in a rotating bi-component fluid that undergoes quick variations of its thermal gradient cannot be reached in such a way to allow a steady pulsed operation.
That is unless the pulsed is measured in terms of several minutes to give to the fluid the possibility to reach an equilibrium. Doing it once per second is going to be really tricky, if feasible at all.
Is it a bi-component fluid (oil and water) or an amalgam?
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Skipjack wrote:Well they allegedly got it to work in a small scale prototype by using explosives.
Scaling this up may become a challenge though.
More than scaling is the application that is different.
I knew that the test was done with water at still and uniform temperature.
My main concern is that the timing of the propagation of the wave in a rotating bi-component fluid that undergoes quick variations of its thermal gradient cannot be reached in such a way to allow a steady pulsed operation.
That is unless the pulsed is measured in terms of several minutes to give to the fluid the possibility to reach an equilibrium. Doing it once per second is going to be really tricky, if feasible at all.
Is it a bi-component fluid (oil and water) or an amalgam?
Should be an amalgam because they plan to spun it inside the tank.
If the two were not miscible they will most probably get separated by centrifugal force.
Physically, our generator will consist of a spherical tank filled with a liquid mixture of lead and lithium. The liquid will be spun by tangential injection to create a vertical cylindrical vortex cavity in the centre of the sphere.