Natural circulation of electrically conducting liquids in fusion reactor blankets

Effects of variations in magnetic Reynolds number on magnetic field distribution in electrically conducting fluid under magnetohydrodynamic natural convection

In this study the effect of magnetic Reynolds number variation on magnetic distribution of natural convection heat transfer in an enclosure is numerically investigated. The geometry is a two dimensional enclosure which the left wall is hot, the right wall is cold and the top and bottom walls are adiabatic. Fluid is molten sodium with Pr=0.01 and natural convection heat transfer for Rayleigh num...

Evaluation of current distribution induced on perfect electrically conducting scatterers

Electrically Charged Conducting Drops Revisited

Since its publication in 1882, Rayleigh's work on electrically charged conducting drops has been widely quoted, but its rigorous derivation has not been given in the literature. By means of the domain perturbation technique, this work presents a rigorous derivation of Rayleigh's results, following his approach with Lagrange's equation. With the systematic procedure, it becomes explicit that the...

Antiphase synchronization of electrically shaken conducting beads.

When a spherical conducting bead is placed in an electrode, it experiences an electric force. In a plane capacitor, it can undergo a periodic bouncing between the electrodes. Using a fast video camera, we measured the acceleration of the bead and the period of its motion as a function of the applied voltage. A mathematical model based on the hypothesis of electrostatic equilibrium is proposed t...

Local iRBF-DQ method for MHD duct flows at high hartmann numbers

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is the study of the interaction between moving, conducting fluids and magnetic fields. In this paper, the discussion is restricted to incompressible, viscous and electrically conducting fluids through pipes and ducts under an imposed uniform, oblique magnetic field. The MHD issues have become increasingly important because of the practical engineering applications suc...