IMPULSE PLASMA ELECTRIC JET ENGINE Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: jet engines.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to electric jet engines employing for operation electronic detonation type of discharge. Proposed engine consists of anode and cathode with discharge gap between which movable surface is installed with directed and controlled displacement and contact with source of liquid or gel-like working medium. Movable surface can be made in form of curvilinear surface, for instance, cylinder, or plane, for instance, disk, with drive providing speed of rotation proportional to frequency of supply of discharge pulses. Discharge gap is essentially generatrix of curvilinear surface or zone on plane between anode and cathode. Invention makes it possible to create impulse plasma engine self-eliminating defects of surface of working medium in zone of discharge gap and self-recovery of serviceability under different unfavorable factors in process of impulse discharges.

EFFECT: improved operation reliability of engine.

5 cl, 2 dwg