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Magnetohydrodynamic flow between rotating coaxial disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

C. J. Stephenson
C. J. Stephenson
Affiliation:
University Engineering Department, Cambridge Present address: IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
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Abstract

This is a study of the magnetohydrodynamic flow of an incompressible viscous fluid between coaxial disks, with a uniform axial magnetic field B. The fluid has density ρ, viseosity η and electrical conductivity σ. The flow is assumed to be steady, and to be similar in the sense that the radial and tangential components of velocity increase linearly with radial distance from the axis of rotation. Most of the work is concerned with disks which are electrical insulators, one of which rotates while the other remains stationary. The imposed conditions can then be represented by the Reynolds number R = ρΩad2/η and the Hartmann number M2 = σB2d2/η, where Ωa is the angular velocity of the rotating disk and d is the gap between the disks. Asymptotic solutions are given for R [Lt ] M2, and numerical solutions are obtained for values of R and M2 up to 512. Experimental measurements are presented which are in general agreement with the theoretical flows, and the results for small values of the Hartmann number provide the first known experimental support for the purely hydrodynamic solutions in the range 100 < R < 800.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , 3 September 1969 , pp. 335 - 352
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© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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