Heya Vortexuses, Any thoughts about my shallow thoughts about the parghomov/Ecat setup,
When it comes to steel making, one often has a magnetic stirrer to even out the temperature in the mold, hence improving the quality of the final product. This works by the magnetic varying field induces current that interacts with the magnetic field and induces a force see. https://www.sinfo-t.jp/eng/stirrer/principle.htm What I'm wondering is if the fuel inside the ECAT at those high temperatures might be stirred by the alternating current. If the stirring is the key, then the frequencies does not need to be especially high. Parkhomov seam to say that the waveform can have high derivatives from time to time which might translate into a "kick" of the right magnitude that might be positive for getting it to stir properly. I'm not sure that the magnitude of this force is in the right ballpark to do anything good though. Another possibility is the following. Powder is a kind of fluid, but if you kick it internally and stir it with a magnetic stirrer with kicks you may make it more fluffy and more fluid like, that can be beneficial, this will surely reduce conductivity though making the stirring effect less prominent, I see lots of options to vary dimensional properties and powder properties, frequencies etc to get the most optimal setting. Also a good question, can one decouple the heating from the stirring (if it indeed can be stirred)? Hmm, wind with two wires in a double helix, one with low resistance (low heating) thicker, higher conductivity etc, and the usual one to heat. Maybe there will be problems with magnetic coupling between the wires, but surely the setup is less coupled then using just one wire. Another better possibility is to heat with DC and stir with AC. One should then try to decrease the resistance in the wire as much as possible in order to heat less with the AC and get more stiring/manipulating power/freedom out of it if needed. Cheers!
