Open AccessExperimental study on the thrust and the ratio of thrust to power of multi-points/grid ionic wind exciter
Author(s) -
Wei Wang,
Yang Lanjun,
Jie Gao,
Shuai Liu
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.62.075205
Subject(s) - thrust , exciter , ion wind , grid , wind power , power (physics) , physics , acoustics , computer science , electrical engineering , mechanics , aerospace engineering , electrode , geology , engineering , geodesy , quantum mechanics
The thrust of ionic wind exciters in 19 points-grid and 31 points-grid electrodes configurations was measured in this paper by means of air suspension test platform without friction. Meanwhile, a control method was also provided for multipoint-grid ionic wind exciter. And then the study was done on the factors, e.g. the gap of point-grid electrodes, the spacing between points, the curvature radius of the point, and the voltage, current of corona discharge, all of which may affect the thrust character; so some methods for getting high thrust at low power were also proposed in order to improve the thrust and the thrust per unit power at the same time.