Extra story (14) Next-generation engine technology that achieves super high speed
It is almost an open secret to countries all over the world that Qin Ke is the technical core figure of Xia State's "Five-Year Plan to March to Mars".
It's not surprising when you think about it. No country can have such a great scientist who is at the top of the world and is in the prime of life in his thirties without letting him concentrate on teaching and educating people. Even if he begs his grandfather to sue his grandmother, it will be impossible.
He will definitely be allowed to participate in engineering projects of great significance to the country.
Now this "Five-Year Plan to Mars", represented by the "Xia Kingdom Houyi Mars Probe Research Project" and with aerospace engine technology breakthroughs as the key point, is undoubtedly worthy of Xia Kingdom's "use" in the eyes of various countries.
"The great project of Academician Qin Ke.
The evidence that further confirms everyone's speculation is that, in addition to Ning Qingyun, who also holds the title of "Deputy General Consultant of Technology", Qin Ke's father-in-law Ning Zongxun and mother-in-law Ji Xiuyu are also the "Xia Kingdom Houyi Mars Probe"
The core members of the "research project" all hold the title of deputy chief engineer.
——As for the chief engineer, he is an old man in the scientific community of Xia State who is over eighty years old. He has been retired for a long time and is only the nominal person in charge. So Ning Zongxun and Ji Xiuyu are actually the main person in charge of this project.
people.
For Ning Zongxun and Ji Xiuyu, two mysterious academicians who had "disappeared" from the world's sight for a long time, but suddenly appeared in the scientific research community of Xia State as experts in aerospace technology five years ago, countries all over the world paid great attention to them.
Attention, judging from the public information, this academician couple in their fifties used to study rocket thruster technology. As for whether it is true or false, not many people can find out what previous research results they have.
Four academicians from one discipline are all integrated into the "Five-Year Plan to Mars". Such a gorgeous lineup is enough to attract the attention of countries around the world.
This is also Qin Ke's deliberate move. After all, directing the world's attention to a certain public research project can better conceal the quantum core technology research and development technology and controllable nuclear fusion technology market that he and Ning Qingyun secretly participated in.
Commercialization, and even the research and development project of Silver Mecha, to prevent the identity of "Mr. Q" from being leaked.
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Of course, this cannot be called "misleading". Qin Keming did put a lot of energy into the "Five-Year Plan to Mars".
At this time, he was in his office, holding a remote seminar on spacecraft engine technology.
Engine technology is the key to the "Xia Guo Houyi Mars Probe Research Project", but achieving a major breakthrough in the speed of the Mars probe is only a preliminary goal. Xia Guo's real goal is to achieve ultra-high-speed navigation of a manned spacecraft.
Detectors and manned spacecraft are not the same in terms of volume or load capacity. Detectors are generally between 400 tons and 600 tons, while manned spacecraft, especially, can carry 10,000 passengers.
A large spacecraft that carries a large amount of survival and construction materials weighs more than 18 million tons. The two are not in the same order of magnitude at all.
Among them, the abundant kinetic energy provided by the engine is the most important thing for manned spacecraft to break through the atmosphere and enter space.
The current mainstream technology is mainly for the engine to control the mixed combustion of fuel and oxidant, and then rapidly eject high-temperature and high-speed gas outwards, using this as a reaction force to propel the spacecraft to accelerate into space.
But the technological route taken by Xia State is much more advanced. After controlling the application technology of small-scale nuclear reactors, Xia State is equivalent to having energy comparable to the sun. Small-scale nuclear reactors, both in terms of energy generated and cost,
They far exceed the mainstream chemical fuel combination with oxidants and fuels such as liquid oxygen kerosene, liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen, and liquid oxygen methane as the core.
The key to the Houyi Mars probe being able to achieve ultra-high speeds beyond the current era lies in the application of small-scale fusion technology in the engine.
Now, in order to provide more abundant power for huge spacecrafts, the application of fusion reactors must be further improved, from "miniaturization" to "medium-sized clusters", and the energy conversion power must be increased to more than 85% as much as possible
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Even if the energy problem is solved, there are still many difficulties in developing a matching engine.
At a minimum, the technologies that need to be overcome include: efficient, stable, long-life thrust chamber technology, high-power, efficient turbine pump technology, and power cluster technology.
The above-mentioned technologies involve materials, dynamics, thermal energy, electricity and many other disciplines. Only by overcoming the above technical difficulties one by one can it be possible to realize that the engine can still have a high life span under long-term high-power operation.
degree goal.
According to the normal speed of science and technology, it will take at least thirty to fifty years of research to achieve the above goals.
Fortunately, Xia State has two major advantages that are enough to shorten this time to five years - this is also the origin of the "five years" time in the "Five-Year Plan to Mars".
The first advantage is that Ning Zongxun and Ji Xiuyu serve as deputy chief engineers. This couple, an academician couple, led a large scientific research team to conduct long-term research on "
The "Noah's Ark"-style flying fortress has conducted extremely in-depth research on the long-lasting operation of ultra-powerful engine technology and clustered energy supply, and has been able to be directly put into practice.
The second advantage is naturally Qin Ke.
As the world's top god-level physicist who is proficient in holonic disciplines, Qin Ke also possesses SS-level black technology knowledge "A complete series of ultra-high-speed spacecraft design drawings suitable for large-scale immigration". It can be said that Qin Ke is an expert on super
All the construction details of the high-speed spacecraft are clear, including the new next-generation power system "X108AII".
This next-generation power system, named "X108AII", far surpasses the "Hall thruster" series that is the mainstream of spacecraft in the world today in terms of performance, power and structural sophistication. Unfortunately, Xia Guo's precision manufacturing
It is still inferior to the West, especially in terms of materials science. There is still a considerable gap, which makes Qin Ke unable to directly manufacture the "X108AII". He can only settle for the second best and design a weakened version of the "X108A" power system.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Don't underestimate this weakened version. The "X108A" power system using eight medium-sized low-temperature fusion reactors still ranks first in the world in all aspects, at least fifteen years ahead of the world.
It's just that the actual construction of the "X108A" power system is very troublesome. Qin Ke naturally doesn't have so much time to follow up on the whole process, so his father-in-law and mother-in-law are responsible for the specific development matters.
Ning Zongxun and Ji Xiuyu once again burst out with strong enthusiasm for scientific research. The two workaholics devoted almost all their energy to the "X108A" power system that surprised them. They used their rich research experience to try their best to conquer today's
Due to the technical difficulties, they gradually turned it from a design drawing into a physical object. For this reason, they only returned to the capital to visit their two grandchildren four or five times a year, and each time only lasted for two or three days.
But no matter how much they forget about food and sleep, they will still encounter "stumbling blocks" that are difficult to solve from time to time. One card can last for half a month or even a month. Often, this is when Qin Ke comes on stage.
At this moment, Qin Ke was in his office, holding an erasable pen in his hand, explaining his latest ideas to hundreds of researchers and senior engineers on the other end of the video conference.
"In fact, the solution to the heat 'overload effect' caused by high-speed jetting of composite ions is not the only 'superconducting cooling plate' cooling solution I designed previously, especially since the current material technology is not up to standard and cannot provide a low enough cost and sufficient yield.
In the case of a superconducting cooling film. Here I will introduce some ideas and introduce a more conventional solution that I have redesigned in the past few days. Well... In order to let everyone understand better, I will start with the design idea from the beginning. I
The main idea can be explained by these dozen mathematical formulas."
Qin Ke wrote as he spoke:
"F=q0/4πe0∫Ω1*Ω2*p1(γ1)p2(γ2)/|γ1-γ2|^3*(γ1-γ2)dΩ1dΩ2..."
He has always believed that mathematics is the best language to describe engineering, clear, accurate, and without any sloppiness.
While writing, he also explained in detail, so that some researchers with relatively less advanced mathematical skills could fully understand his ideas.
"It can be seen from these calculations that I mainly use the electromagnetic effect and the rotational power generated by the combined effect of the engraved patterns on the inner wall of the heat dissipation road to circulate the hot gas around the heat dissipation channel. The electrified system is used.
The charge density and interaction force between..."
In the remote desert research base, the large conference room was filled with people, including young new researchers and many old researchers with gray hair.
But like Ning Zongxun and Ji Xiuyu, they all looked seriously at the "young boy" talking eloquently and calmly and confidently on the big screen.
Qin Ke is almost 34 years old this year. In this era when 35 is considered a "workplace abandonment", this age is really not young.
Of course, Qin Ke's appearance has hardly changed since he was in college. The smile on his face is gentle, and his eyes are firm but inhuman. People always have the illusion that this is an ordinary, handsome and sunny boy. Just being there
At most, everyone just sighed, "Academician Qin looks really young," and didn't show any contempt at all.
Whether it was Ning Zongxun, Ji Xiuyu or those senior engineers, designers and researchers who had been in the industry for decades, they all listened to Qin Ke's words with concentration, for fear of missing a word, and they took notes quickly with the pen in their hand.
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As usual, Qin Ke's meeting was very efficient and there was no nonsense. After coming up and neatly proposing a solution to the technical difficulties, he looked relaxed and joked with everyone, encouraged them, and then ended the call.
Next, Ning Zongxun and his wife stood on the podium, summarized Qin Ke's plan, and rearranged new tasks to implement the solution Qin Ke just proposed as soon as possible.
To this day, no one doubts whether the solution proposed by Qin Ke can solve the problem - even if it cannot, it is not Academician Qin's fault, but the researchers and engineers who cannot implement it 100% - this
It really made them feel emotional and ashamed.
At the end of the meeting, Academician Meng Zhenli, who was nearly 70 years old, took off his glasses, rubbed his sour eyes, and sighed: "In three days, we were able to come up with such a highly feasible new solution. Academician Ning, Academician Ji, you guys
This son-in-law really makes people admire him. What I admire the most is that he is not only knowledgeable, but his thinking is also unique. He can not only figure out advanced design plans, but also start from ordinary places and use them with exquisite design.
Ideas turn decay into magic. Heat dissipation solutions like today's can easily solve the heat 'overload effect' that we are always having a headache with."
Ji Xiuyu smiled and said: "I can't praise him too much. His plan today can only last a few years. If we really want to solve this problem once and for all, we still have to work hard to make the superconducting cooling film he proposed before and make it available on a large scale."
Commercialization." He was so "modest" in his mouth, but he couldn't hide the pride in his eyes.
Even as arrogant as she is, she has long been convinced and proud of her son-in-law, a real super genius. She and her husband have been "retired" for many years, so they can easily work in this research base that gathers the elites of the national scientific research community.
Achieving "one word and one word" is largely due to Qin Ke's huge influence.
Chapter completed!