Liquid metal breeding blankets are extensively studied in nuclear fusion. In the main proposed systems, Water Cooled Lithium Lead (WCLL) and Dual Coolant (DCLL), liquid flows under an intense transverse magnetic field, for which a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effect is produced. The result alteration of all flow features increase pressure drops. Although latter issue can be evaluated with system m...

In this paper we incorporate a low magnetic Reynolds number MHD model to a high order CFD algorithm with WENO and a low diffusion scheme for 3D Navier-Stokes equations. We present results for hypersonic laminar flows around a flat plate and around a blunt body, with different strengths of magnetic fields, to demonstrate the methodology. More simulations, including turbulence, are in progress an...

In this paper, the flow, thermal and concentration analyses of blood as a third grade with gold as nanoparticles through a porous channel are carried out using regular perturbation method. The analysis are carried out using Vogel’s model of temperature-dependent viscosity. The developed models were used to investigate the effects of the nano particles on the concentration, temperature and veloc...

In this paper, we study the system governing flows in the magnetic field within the earth. The system is similar to the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. By establishing a new priori estimates and following Calderón’s procedure for the Navier Stokes equations [1], we obtained, for initial data in space Lp , the global in time existence and uniqueness of weak solution of the system subject to...

The total dissipation rate for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows in plane geometry with both velocity and magnetic shear is studied. For some boundary conditions it is shown that the lower bound on the dissipation rate is achieved by the equivalent of Stokes flow for MHD. Using the ‘background method’ (Doering & Constantin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1648–1651 (1992)) upper bounds for the dissipation r...

Magnetic island equilibria resulting from reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are explored in a two-dimensional slab geometry. Magnetic islands are evolved to finite amplitude with a nonzero resistivity. The resistivity and flows are then set to zero and the system is allowed to relax toward equilibrium. A y-type singular current layer in the equilibrium state is identified fo...

A recently proposed lattice Boltzmann kinetic scheme offers a promising tool for simulating complex 3-D MHD flows. The algorithm is based on the BGK modeling of the collision term. The conventional approach for implementing magnetic behavior in LBM methods is based on one tensor-valued distribution function to present both the fluids variables (density and momentum) and the magnetic field. This...

The total dissipation rate for magnetohydrodynamic ~MHD! flows in plane geometry with both velocity and magnetic shear is studied. For some boundary conditions it is shown that the lower bound on the dissipation rate is achieved by the equivalent of Stokes flow for MHD. Using the background method @Doering and Constantin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1648 ~1992!# upper bounds for the dissipation rate a...

Heat transfer in closed channel flows of molten salts (MS)s, such as FLiBe or FLiNaBe, has been considered under specific reactor conditions. MHD effects have been accessed for two blanket concepts: self-cooled MS blanket, and dual-coolant MS blanket. The effect of heat transfer degradation due to turbulence reduction by a magnetic field in the First Wall channels of the selfcooled blanket was ...