Influence of surface oxidation on electric potential measurements in MHD liquid metal flows

Experimental investigations for magnetohydrodynamic flows in rectangular ducts are performed using GaInSn as model fluid. Measurements of electric potential on channel walls and inside the flow show reproducible discrepancies compared to analytical results. These discrepancies can be ascribed to the formation of oxide layers causing a contact resistance between the electrically conducting duct walls and the liquid metal. An exact analytical solution for pressure drop, velocity and potential distributions has been derived taking into account the presence of a contact resistance. Analytical results for velocity and potential profiles and for pressure drop are discussed for different values of contact resistance and strength of the applied magnetic field. A comparison of measured potential with data from the analytical solution allows estimating the order of magnitude of the contact resistance in the present experiments.     

Power Density and Electrical Efficiency in Closed Cycle MHD Generator with Fully Ionized Seed

Effects of a reduced seed concentration on performances of a nonequilibrium MHD generator are investigated by calculating power densities and electrical efficiencies for both Faraday and Hall generators.

It is shown that high electrical efficiencies and high power densities are obtained simultaneously by suppressing the ionization instability with reduced seed fractions (10^?4 ～10^?5) when values of the effective electrical conductivity and the effective Hall parameter recover to above 50% of their ideal ones. Results also indicate that argon is more suitable for a working fluid than helium in the case of a reduced seed concentration.     

高温包层内多层插件流道内液态铅锂MHD流动数值分析

包层是聚变反应堆能量转换和提取的关键部件,聚变高温制氢堆(FDS-Ⅲ)高温液态铅锂包层(HTL)中采用创新型多层插件(MFCI)技术,由SiC_f/SiC组成的流道插件使液态铅锂实现了1 000℃左右出口温度,从而达到更高的热电转换效率和制氢能力。液态金属磁流体动力学效应MHD效应是HTL包层的重点问题之一。本文以高温包层结构为参考,采用FDS团队自主开发的磁流体动力学与热工水力学耦合模拟软件MTC,对高哈特曼数下典型多层插件流道内的液态铅锂MHD流动特性进行了数值模拟,分析了不同插件电导率对流道之间电磁耦合现象的影响。     

Terrific effect of H2 on 3D free convection MHD flow of C2H6O2H2O hybrid base fluid to dissolve Cu nanoparticles in a porous space considering the thermal radiation and nanoparticle shapes effects

In this article, the physical aspects of natural convection magnetohydrodynamic flow of Cu/Ethylene glycol-water nanofluid past a porosity vertical stretching sheet under impact of thermal radiation, shape and slip factor and suction/injection process has been analyzed using Runge- Kutta Fehlberg fifth order (RKF 5) numerical method. The influence of variable, different parameters such as nanoparticles shape factor, named hexahedron and Lamina on temperature and velocity profiles are exemplified quantitatively through graphs. Outputs demonstrate thermal radiation impact causes to produce heat and increase the temperature profile by increasing nanofluid molecules energy. Lamina shape nanoparticle has a greater effect on increasing Nusselt number (Nu) compared to hexahedron.     

Effects of Internal and External Connection of Electrodes in Diagonal Type Nonequilibrium Plasma MHD Generator

In this paper, by a two-dimensional analysis in the duct cross section perpendicular to the plasma flow, the authors investigate comparatively the current distribution, the electrical efficiency etc. in the diagonal type nonequilibrium plasma generator of the window frame construction and the one of the insulating sidewall. Their numerical computations are made for an example of the cesium-seeded helium in nonequilibrium ionization, where it is assumed that the ionization instability does not occur.

It is shown that the current in the generator duct of the diagonal conducting wall tends to flow uniformly in the cross section of the duct, and on the other hand, the current in the duct of the insulating sidewall does in its central part; thus the performance characteristics of the former becomes better than those of the latter. This tendency increases with the load factor and wall temperature of the generator. Also the generator characteristics are improved with increasing the inclination factor, and the electrode voltage drop decreases with the load factor.     

Magnetohydrodynamics boundary layer flow and heat transfer in porous medium past an exponentially stretching sheet under the influence of radiation

Buoyancy forces result from the cooling or heating of a continuous stretching sheet, which causes a change in the resulting flow and thermal fields, and hence the heat transfer behavior in the manufacturing process. The study of the thermal buoyancy induced in boundary layer flow is important due to its recent advances in the areas of nuclear energy, electronics, and space technology. In this perspective, the aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of the buoyancy parameter on the magnetohydrodynamics boundary layer flow over an exponentially stretched sheet in the presence of nonlinear thermal radiation and porous media. Using similarity transformation, the flow model of partial differential equations is transformed into a set of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The efficient fourth‐order Runge‐Kutta scheme with the shooting method is used to solve the reduced equations. The impact of various associated parameters on velocity and temperature profiles were analyzed and computed through graphs. The major outcome of the present study shows the enhancement in the velocity distribution with the increase in the buoyancy parameter. Also, the increase in thermal buoyancy and thermal radiation leads to an increase in fluid temperature. Moreover, it is worth to note that the fluid velocity declines with the augmentation of the magnetic parameter.     

Plasma Behavior in a High‐Temperature Noble Gas Plasma Disk‐Shaped MHD Power Generator

R‐θ two‐dimensional numerical simulations have been carried out to clarify the plasma behavior in a high‐temperature noble gas plasma disk‐shaped magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator. At low inlet total temperature and high load resistance, the plasma has spiral structure which is similar to the nonuniform structure under the weak noble gas ionization condition in a seed‐plasma MHD generator. As seen in a linear‐shaped Faraday‐type MHD generator, the plasma becomes stable with increase in the inlet total temperature because the coulomb collision of electrons becomes dominant. Even at low inlet total temperature, the ionization instability can be suppressed for low load resistance, because the relatively low electron temperature due to less Joule heating makes the ionization relaxation time longer than plasma residential time.     

Hall current impacts on unsteady MHD free convective flow past an infinite vertical porous surface

In this paper, the magnetohydrodynamic free convective flow of an incompressible electrically conducting fluid over a vertical plate embedded in a porous medium is considered. A homogeneous transverse magnetic field is applied in the presence of a heat source and chemical reaction in a rotating frame, taking Hall current effects into account. The momentum equations for the fluid flow in a porous medium were determined by Brinkman modeling. At the undisturbed state, both the plate and fluid have an rigid body rotation due to the constant angular velocity, perpendicular to the infinite vertical plane surface. The vertical surface is subject to the homogeneous constant suction and the heat on the surface vary by time about a nonzero constant rate whereas the temperature of free stream is engaged to be constant. The accurate solutions for the velocity, temperature, and concentration distributions were acquired systematically using the perturbation method. The consequences of an assortment of governing flow parameters on the velocity, temperature, and concentration were analyzed through graphical profiles. The computational results for the skin friction, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number in a tabular format were also examined.     

Multislip and Soret–Dufour influence on nonlinear convection flow of MHD dissipative Casson fluid over a slendering stretching sheet with generalized heat flux phenomenon

In the present investigation, Soret–Dufour and multislip's impact on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Casson fluid flow encompassing variable thermophysical features in the nonlinear convection process is analyzed. It is believed that to any effective heat and mass transfer enhancement, the relaxation of such fluid and material time along with the thermo-physical features, are well estimated. In this model, a magnetic field of nonuniform strength is applied perpendicular to the slendering sheet with variable thickness, and nonlinear convection flow is considered in this generalized heat flux examination. An appropriate similarity variable is implemented on the governing equations embedding the variable viscosity, thermal conductivity, and generalized Fourier's law to drive ordinary differential equations. Galerkin weighted residual approach is utilized to calculate the flow field among other flow characteristics. The novel flow features are discussed therein. Modified Fourier and multislip's parameters are seen to have downsized the velocity and temperature field greatly. Thermal and solutal buoyancy effects are more pronounced in nonlinear form compared to the linear model. Dufour number influences both velocity and energy fields positively but negates the concentration field, while the Soret number gives an opposing characterization.     

Heat and mass transfer in a MHD non‐Darcian micropolar fluid over an unsteady stretching sheet with non‐uniform heat source/sink and thermophoresis

The effect of heat and mass transfer in a MHD non‐Darcian flow of a micropolar fluid over an unsteady stretching sheet with thermophoresis and non‐uniform heat source/sink is discussed. The fluid is electrically conducting in the presence of a uniform applied magnetic field. The arising nonlinear problem is solved by the Keller box method. The effects of various physical parameters on skin friction, local Nusselt number, and Sherwood number are presented graphically and in tabular form. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res; Published online in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/htj ). DOI 10.1002/htj.21018