The use of flowing liquid metal streams or “liquid walls” as a plasma contact surface is a very attractive option and has received considerable attention over the past several years both in the plasma physics and fusion engineering programs. A key issue for the feasibility of flowing liquid metal plasma facing component (PFC) systems, lies in their magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) behavior. The spatia...

The linear marginal instability of an axisymmetric MHD Taylor-Couette flow of infinite vertical extension is considered. For flows with a resting outer cylinder there is a well-known characteristic Reynolds number even without magnetic field but for sufficiently weak magnetic fields there are solutions with smaller Reynolds numbers so that a characteristic minimum exists. The minimum only exist...

We study the effect of velocity shear on the spectrum of MHD surface waves. A nonuniform intermediate region is taken into account, so that the surface wave can be subject to resonant absorption. In order to deal in a mathematically and also physically consistent manner with the resonant wave excitation, we analytically derive the dissipative solution around the resonant surface in resistive MH...

We have argued that MHD turbulence in an accretion disk naturally produces hoop-stresses, and that in a geometrically-thick flow these stresses could both drive and collimate an outflow. We based this argument on an analogy of turbulent MHD fluids to viscoelastic fluids, in which azimuthal shear flow creates hoop-stresses that cause a variety of flow phenomena, including the Weissenberg effect ...

Liquid metal MHD (Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic) systems can be employed to produce electricity from a wide range of heat resources. In such a system, a low-boiling organic fluid and a high-temperature liquid metal fluid mix. The former evaporates, and carries the latter to flow through an MHD channel, where the electricity is generated. The mixing process and the gas-liquid flow characteristics will h...

The effect of variable thermal conductivity and thermal radiation on heat and mass transfer in the MHD flow of a Casson fluid over a porous stretching sheet is investigated. The governing non-linear partial differential equations for the flow, heat and mass transfer are solved by employing the Runge-Kutta fourth order method along with shooting technique. The velocity, temperature and concentra...

[1] In order to better describe the space plasmas where pressure anisotropy has prominent effects, we extend the BATS-R-US magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model to include anisotropic pressure. We implement the anisotropic MHD equations under the double adiabatic approximation with an additional pressure relaxation term into BATS-R-US and perform global magnetospheric simulations. The results from i...

We analyze three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a nonradiative accretion flow around a black hole using a pseudo-Newtonian potential. The flow originates from a torus initially centered at 100 gravitational (Schwarzschild) radii. Accretion is driven by turbulent stresses generated selfconsistently by the magnetorotational instability. The resulting flow has three well-defi...

The fundamental problem of blood flow in a channel with stenosis under the influence of a steady uniform magnetic field is studied. The mathematical model used for the formulation of the problem is consistent with the principles of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Blood is considered as a homogeneous Newtonian fluid and is treated as an electrically conducting magnetic fluid. The finite volume (FV) ...

In this paper, ve investigate the flov of a viscous, Incompresslble, electrlcally conducting fluld through a rectangular duct in the presence of a magnetic fleld, when one of the boundaries perpedlcular to the umgnetlc field is partly conducting and partly Insu/atlng, by a modified Boundary Integral Hethod. Three problems are considered (1) flov through an infinite channel, (li) flov through a ...