Abstract
To theoretically explain the experimentally obtained performance characteristics of nonequilibrium Faraday MHD generator such as the total output power and the value of each electrode current, the authors newly develop a quasi-two-dimensional time-dependent simulation code, in which not only the two-dimensional distributions of the electrical quantities but also the onedimensional distributions of the gas dynamical quantities are calculated and the interactions between the electrical and gas dynamical quantities are taken into account. In this paper, at first, the simulation results are compared with the experimental results and it is confirmed that the simulation code can predict the performance characteristics of the generator. Next, numerically obtained distributions of the electrical and gas dynamical quantities in the generator channel are described, where they were not sufficiently clear by the experiments because of the difficulty of their measurement, and the relations between the numerically obtained distributions and the experimentally obtained performance characteristics are also made clear.
