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US 2017/0079127 A1Published application
Plasma flow interaction simulator
AssigneeTorus Tech LLC
InventorNassim HARAMEIN
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Abstract
A plasma interaction simulator is presented. The simulator magnetically induces multiple distinct flows of plasma within a physical plasma vessel. The plasma flows collide with each other at flow interaction boundaries where discontinuities arising due to differences between the flows give rise to interactions. Sensors can be incorporated into the plasma simulator to observe and collect data about the plasma flow interactions.
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A method of simulating a plasma flow interaction, comprising:
- placing a plasma vessel in a gas chamber;
- at least partially filling the plasma vessel with a gas mixture at a first pressure;
- sealing the plasma vessel with the gas mixture;
- positioning the plasma vessel within a simulator having a set of ribs, a set of coils, and an ionization source;
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- ionizing the gas mixture using the ionization source;
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- generating, after ionizing the gas mixture, a rib magnetic field and a coil magnetic field via the set of ribs and the set of coils, respectively, wherein the ionized gas mixture and the rib and coil magnetic fields cooperate to create first and second ionized gas mixture flows that interact at an interaction boundary.
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A plasma interaction simulator, comprising:
- a plasma container configured to contain a gas mixture;
- a set of rib conducting loops including a first rib loop;
- a set of coil conducting loops including a first coil loop;
- wherein the first coil loop traverses through the first rib loop;
- an ionization source configured to ionize the gas mixture to generate plasma;
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- wherein the set of rib conducting loops and the set of coil conducting loops are configured to yield first and second magnetic fields, respectively, that magnetically induce first and second plasma flows that interact at an interaction boundary.
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A method of spinning plasma, comprising:
- within a vessel, spinning a first portion of a plasma in a first direction, and spinning a second portion of the plasma in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.