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Ah yes, I should have realized that the hall voltage being created along the MHD was a potential that the ions in the gas would have to climb. If I assume a perfect MHD generator, and that there is no net change in flow area, then the only "slowing" felt by the fluid should be from the electric...

Nuclear engineering student minoring in Physics Interested in advanced fission reactor designs, space applications of nuclear engineering Experience in rad-hard electronics, X-ray Computed Tomography, Interferometry

I am attempting to derive equations of state for a flow loop that incorporates a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator to extract energy from the working fluid, an ionized gas. I have been able to find the following equation to define the power output of the generator: (where K is load factor, σ...