The report describes experimental studies of the growth of mercury drops in continuous supersonic and subsonic flows. By comparing the amounts of mercury collected by pitot probes of different sizes, the diameters of the mercury drops were determined as they grew from 0.3 to 0.7 microns. The pitot probes were shown to be capable of detecting and measuring the amount of condensation even when less than 1% of the mercury ...
The effort was both a theoretical and experimental program leading to the development of high voltage, high power switching devices which utilize a liquid metal cathode. A series of mercury tubes with plasma injection triggering were built and tested culminating with a switch capable of 100KV, 8KA, and 320MW peak operation. A discussion is presented comparing the relative merits of mercury and liquid sodium as the cathode material. Preliminary work ...
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