Status of MHD Ship Propulsion
Résumé
MHD propulsion is a promising concept to thrust directly a ship in sea water without propeler and mobile
mechanical part. The combined action of magnetic field and electric field produces Lorentz forces in a sea
water which is an electrolyte. Consequently the MHD community has to face three kind of phenomena
which are coupled together: hydrodynamics, electromagnetics and electrochemistry. An important
theoretical and experimental work is presently on progress in several countries. It produces promissing
results. The key point of the industrialisation of MHD thruster is the development of very large on board
high induction superconducting magnet.
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