Chapter 136 What Does Welding Mean?
"Bang!"
As soon as Lu Yi and his friends returned to the laboratory, a huge sound came from a wasteland behind the aerospace project area. The sound was dull, like a torpedo exploded underwater.
"This lunatic!"
Feeling the smoke and heat dispersed in the air, Lu Yi's mouth twitched a little, and he really guessed that Wei Hong was testing with a bomb.
If he guessed correctly, he was using a bomb with improved aluminum heater.
The aluminum thermal reaction can generate high temperatures above 2500 degrees Celsius. This temperature can turn the gas into plasma. As long as the bomb dose is calculated and controlled, some actual data can still be collected by borrowing the explosion impact.
As for bomb experts and bombs, there is the Yangcheng Military Region next to it. This is not a difficult task according to the relationship between the laboratory.
When we arrived at the wasteland behind the aerospace project, in addition to Wei Hong and his fellow researchers, Commander Huang and several bomb experts, Hu Feng and other researchers in the laboratory who were a little curious about this experiment were gathered there.
Seeing Lu Yi and his friends coming, everyone moved out of their position, but when Lu Yi saw the test bench seventy or eighty meters away, his face suddenly turned dark.
The aerospace engine placed on the test bench is not a conventional aerospace engine, but a standard aerospace engine bell-shaped nozzle. The dense superconducting coils are fixed in a mess and tightly wrapped around the nozzles.
Obviously, these superconducting coils imitate the function of the external magnetic field coil of the satellite device and form a restraining magnetic field blocking plasma on the inner wall of the nozzle.
These design structures are fine, and they are still in line with the design plan. They are a little messy because this is an experiment, which is understandable and acceptable.
But what does it mean to almost weld the nozzle to death?
The thrust principle of aerospace engines is a bit similar to using a firecracker to cover it with a cup, and then the cup is blown away.
The propulsion work fluid expands at a high speed in the nozzle, and the pressure acts on the inner wall. However, because the nozzle is bell-shaped or conical, there will be an opening, and the pressure will be released in the opening, but when it touches the inner wall in other directions, it will cause obstacles.
In this way, the unbalanced expansion pressure and the high-speed backlash of the propulsion work fluid eventually form a thrust force opposite to the direction of the nozzle opening.
You have welded the nozzle opening to death, so why are you testing?
Seeing that the nozzle was almost completely welded, leaving only a hole in the middle to vent the internal explosion pressure test engine, Lu Yi asked Wei Hong next to him with a dark face: "Are you frying the pot? Is this the engine?"
"Boss, I have no choice. We don't have a backup nuclear fusion reactor...
I said I would open the reserved gap of the reactor, replace it with a new filter to connect the ultra-high temperature exhaust gas, but it was rejected by the magnetofluid power generation component that had not been completed. At the same time, we did not have a small nuclear bomb, so I could only ask Commander Huang to borrow some aluminum thermal agent improved bombs for testing."
Wei Hong said helplessly: "Who could have thought that the aluminum thermal agent, which usually sounds very powerful, is so small that it does not seal the nozzle opening to block the leakage of energy, and the plasma state of the gas will not last long."
"After welding, the expansion pressure and even the recoil force will be offset by each other. How do you obtain the test data?"
Lu Yi looked at the welded space engine nozzle on the test bench and asked, "Pressure sensing?"
"Yes, pressure sensing, we don't have a nuclear fusion reactor, a small nuclear bomb, and we can't fully test the real data of this space engine."
Wei Hong looked at the test engine that had just eaten an aluminum thermal bomb and was still dissipating heat, and said, "I am just testing the data of the constrained magnetic field to further optimize the constrained magnetic field. At the same time, I collect expansion pressure data and rebound data to simulate and analyze the optimal shape of the nozzle.
These two tests can be completed through high-sensitivity pressure sensors and temperature sensors loaded on the inner wall interlayer, but the test is limited to this. Further tests and improvements are made to the ultra-high temperature exhaust gas or small nuclear bombs that I need for nuclear fusion reactors."
It's a nuclear fusion reactor, a small nuclear bomb...
Lu Yi rubbed his forehead with some headache and said to Wei Hong: "I'll give it to you within two months when the second nuclear fusion reactor you want."
A few days ago, it was confirmed that the controllable nuclear fusion was successful. The Tomorrow Group, which obtained the construction qualification, immediately placed an order for nuclear fusion reactor-related components to major industrial groups in China. Several high-precision components involved were also placed orders to the East Island Country.
According to the timetable, it will take about 26 days to complete the production of relevant components of the fusion reactor. Even if the first and second ones are built while producing, the first and second ones are experienced, it is conservatively estimated that it will take one and a half months to stay away from the world's second nuclear fusion reactor.
I ordered a nuclear fusion reactor myself. In addition to Wei Hong, a lunatic, urging the ultra-high temperature exhaust gas of the nuclear fusion reactor every day to improve the design of aerospace engines, the main reason is that the laboratories use more and more electricity.
Power supply in Yangcheng is already tight, and now the power supply bureau sees people in charge of daily affairs management in the laboratory, so they hide, for fear that they will say they want to expand the power capacity.
"Two months, that's OK."
Wei Hong was a little disappointed. What he had always thought about was to open the gap in the current reactor so that it would take less than a month.
"You can test it first, be careful not to cause fires, and pay attention to the situation when there are small nuclear bombs, and don't always talk about it!"
The small hydrogen bomb was too sensitive, so he said it when submitting the report that day, and he had never asked about it during his subsequent time in Beijing.
After telling Wei Hong to pay attention, Lu Yi ignored the madman and turned around and walked towards the controllable nuclear fusion laboratory.
I didn't see the old guy Rupert here just now. I have been studying the miniaturization of the controllable fusion reactor for several months. Lu Yi felt it was necessary to determine whether this guy was facing any difficulties and obstacles. This is also a master who doesn't like to issue experimental progress reports.
"Lu Lu, the reactor has reached its design power after adjustment in the past two days. President Wang Gang said that the announcement conference was ready to be arranged, and asked us when we will start."
At this time, Zhang Qing followed up to remind Lu Yi about something that he had forgotten.
There was originally a formal briefing for the breakthrough of controlled nuclear fusion, after all, this was a "multi-country" joint project.
When Lu Yi proposed to put this notice on the Central University, although it was a bit inappropriate, the superiors also gave General Manager Lu a face and agreed. However, Lu Yi almost finished the matter due to the heat crisis these days.
"If you don't say it, I really forgot to agree to this."
Lu Yi smiled bitterly. This was the worry of not having an assistant. His research and even specific matters involved too many confidential matters, and it is not easy to find an assistant.
"Let's borrow an assistant from above. Our research is not as confidential as the above." Zhang Qing saw Lu Yi's troubles and suggested.
"Forget it, a big man follows me every day and panic. If you change to a woman, you see that I panic."
Lu Yi shook his head: "There is not so many messy things after the controllable nuclear fusion project is completed. Let me tell the dean that the time is set at 10 o'clock the morning after tomorrow. I will ask Senior Sister Xu Ying to follow up on this matter.
Today I will deal with the miniaturization of nuclear fusion. Let’s see what this guy Rupert is doing. Tomorrow we will have a video conference with the ligo project team. With the help of the above relationship, the US NSF has agreed to give us the parameter data of the ligo observatory.”
"The parameter data of the ligo laser interferometric gravitational wave observatory? Are they complete?"
Zhang Qing's eyes lit up. Although her own Tianqin plan and Alibaba plan are also underway in gravitational wave research, it is undeniable that the American ligo is already ahead of her.
If the complete data on the ligo project can be obtained at this time, even if the ligo is ground detection Tianqin plan and Lu Yi's plan are space exploration, it will also make a qualitative improvement in the research of the entire space gravitational wave project.
Even from a certain perspective, the noise interference in the ground environment will be greater and the detection difficulty will be higher.
"Full, and also includes the complete data from the last time they found a gravitational wave."
Lu Yi smiled. He just mentioned this matter tentatively, but he didn't expect it to be true. Even the original plan to give in from cancer inhibitor drugs was spared.
"I'll look for Rupert first. Ask Principal Luo for this matter and see if there is anything to ask about Tianqin Plan. It's time to give you a reward after playing Tianqin Plan for so long."
"Well, I know, it seems that if I go to Baidao City again in the future, the professors and the others will be dissatisfied if they don't see me."
Zhang Qing also smiled. Due to the lack of research conditions for space gravitational waves on her side, she used the national flag of the controllable nuclear fusion project to go to Baidao City. She went from Tianqin Plan with her former mentors and Principal of the Central University of China to get some data, and then began to slowly establish her own research.
Chapter completed!