Numerical Study of Magnetic Field Influence on Three-Dimensional Flow Regime and Combined-Convection Heat Exchange Within Concentric and Eccentric Rotating Cylinders

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javad Sodagar-Abardeh ◽  
Payam Nasery ◽  
Ahmad Arabkoohsar ◽  
Mahmood Farzaneh-Gord

Abstract The forced and natural flows of fluid within an annulus caused by the rotation of cylinders and temperature differences of the inner and outer walls are observed in various engineering applications. In this research, the laminar flow regime and mixed convection inside a ring-shaped horizontal concentric and eccentric space for an incompressible fluid are studied in the existence of an axial magnetic field. The present work is the first effort to investigate the influence of a magnetic field on flow and combined-convection heat exchange characteristics within an annulus with a cold outer cylinder and an inner hot cylinder. Here, the properties of the flow and heat transfer characteristics are studied using the finite volume method. Numerical procedures are mainly investigated for recognizing the influence of Hartmann number (in the range of 0 ≤ Ha ≤ 100), as the representative of the magnetic force, on velocity components, Nusselt number, streamlines, and isothermal lines. One of the notable effects is that when Ha number increases, it will reduce the vorticity of the fluid and buoyancy forces. As a result, streamlines and isothermal lines can be seen more constant as regular concentric circles. A rise in Ha number decreases the range of local Nu number variation for both cylinders. The average Nu number for the outer and inner cylinders has different trends when Ha number increases. Taking concentric cylinders as an example, this parameter for the inner and the outer cylinders increases and decreases by about 1.2 and 1.6, respectively.

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Peter ◽  
Anthony L. Peratt

Three-dimensional plasma simulations of interacting galactic-dimensioned current filaments show bursts of synchroton radiation of energy density 1·2 ×10−13 erg/cm3 which can be compared with the measured cosmic microwave background energy density of 1·5 × 10−13 erg/cm3. However, the synchrotron emission observed in the simulations is not blackbody. In this paper, we analyze the absorption of the synchrotron emission by the current filaments themselves (i.e., self-absorption) in order to investigate the thermalization of the emitted radiation. It is found that a large number of current filaments (>1031) are needed to make the radiation spectrum blackbody up to the observed measured frequency of 100 GHz. The radiation spectrum and the required number of current filaments is a strong function of the axial magnetic field in the filaments.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leily Abidi

A three dimensional numerical simulation of the effect of an axial magnetic field on the fluid flow, heat and mass transfer within the solvent of GE0.98Si0.02 grown by the travelling solvent method is presented. The full steady state Navier-Stokes equations, as well as the energy, continuity and the mass transport equations, were solved numerically using the finite element technique. It is found that a strong convective flow exists in the solvent, which is known to be undesirable to achieve a uniform crystal. An external axial magnetic field is applied to suppress this convection. By increasing the magnetic induction, it is observed that the intensity of the flow at the centre of the crucible reduces at a faster rate than near the wall. This phenomenon creates a stable and flat growth interface and the silicon distribution in the horizontal plane becomes relatively homocentric. The maximum velocity is found to obey a power law with respect to the Hartmann number Umax Ha⁻⁷/⁴


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leily Abidi

A three dimensional numerical simulation of the effect of an axial magnetic field on the fluid flow, heat and mass transfer within the solvent of GE0.98Si0.02 grown by the travelling solvent method is presented. The full steady state Navier-Stokes equations, as well as the energy, continuity and the mass transport equations, were solved numerically using the finite element technique. It is found that a strong convective flow exists in the solvent, which is known to be undesirable to achieve a uniform crystal. An external axial magnetic field is applied to suppress this convection. By increasing the magnetic induction, it is observed that the intensity of the flow at the centre of the crucible reduces at a faster rate than near the wall. This phenomenon creates a stable and flat growth interface and the silicon distribution in the horizontal plane becomes relatively homocentric. The maximum velocity is found to obey a power law with respect to the Hartmann number Umax Ha⁻⁷/⁴


2021 ◽  
pp. 57-57
Author(s):  
Zakaria Lafdaili ◽  
Sakina El-Hamdani ◽  
Abdelaziz Bendou ◽  
Karim Limam ◽  
Bara El-Hafad

In this work we study numerically the three-dimensional turbulent natural convection in a partially heated cubic cavity filled with water containing metallic nanoparticles, metallic oxides and others based on carbon.The objective is to study and compare the effect of the addition of nanoparticles studied in water and also the effect of the position of the heated partition on the heat exchange by turbulent natural convection in this type of geometry, which can significantly improve the design of heat exchange systems for better space optimization. For this we have treated numerically for different volume fractions the turbulent natural convection in the two cases where the cavity is heated respectively by a vertical and horizontal strip in the middle of one of the vertical walls. To take into account the effects of turbulence, we used the standard turbulence model ? - ?. The governing equations are discretized by the finite volume method using the power law scheme which offers a good stability characteristic in this type of flow. The results are presented in the form of isothermal lines and current lines. The variation of the mean Nusselt number is calculated for the two positions of the heated partition as a function of the volume fraction of the nanoparticles studied in water for different Rayleigh numbers.The results show that carbon-based nanoparticles intensify heat exchange by convection better and that the position of the heated partition significantly influences heat exchange by natural convection. In fact, an improvement in the average Nusselt number of more than 20% is observed for the case where the heated partition is horizontal.


2020 ◽  
Vol 307 ◽  
pp. 01027
Author(s):  
S. KHERROUBI ◽  
K. RAGUI ◽  
N. LABSI ◽  
Y.K. BENKAHLA ◽  
A. BOUTRA

The present work is dedicated to the three-dimensional numerical study of mixed convection heat transfer, taking place within a ventilated cavity (of shape L) crossed by Cu-water nanofluid. The enclosure is subjected to the action of a magnetic field. The ventilation is assured by two openings of the same size. The cold flow enters by an opening practiced at the top of the left wall, and exits by another opening practiced at the bottom of the right vertical wall. All the cavity walls are maintained at the same temperature, superior to that of the entering flow, except the side walls which are considered as adiabatic. The control parameters are: the Reynolds number and the Hartmann number as well as the nanoparticles volume fraction.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 5792
Author(s):  
Lei Xiao ◽  
Ding Fan ◽  
Jiankang Huang ◽  
Shinichi Tashiro ◽  
Manabu Tanaka

For gas metal arc welding (GMAW), increasing the welding current is the most effective way to improve welding efficiency. However, much higher current decreases the welding quality as a result of metal rotating-spray transfer phenomena in the high-current GMAW process. In this work, the external axial magnetic field (EAMF) was applied to the high-current GMAW process to control the metal transfer and decrease the welding spatters. A unified arc-droplet coupled model for high-current GMAW using EAMFs was built to investigate the metal rotating-spray transfer behavior. The temperature fields, flow fields in the arc, and droplet were revealed. Considering all the heat transferred to the molten metal, the Joule heat was found to be the dominant factor affecting the droplet temperature rise, followed by the anode heat. The conductive heat from the arc contributed less than half the value of the other two. Considering the EAMFs of different alternating frequencies, the arc constricting effects and controlled metal transfer behaviors are discussed. The calculated results agree well with the experimental high-speed camera observations.


Many of the earliest experiments in controlled thermonuclear fusion research were Z -pinches. However these pinches were found to be highly unstable to the m = 0, the m — 1 (kink), and the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The addition of an axial magnetic field and the removal of end losses by proceeding to a toroidal geometry has led to the class of discharges known as tokamaks and the reversed field pinch. But, at fusion temperatures and with practical values of applied magnetic field this restricts the plasma density to 10 20 to 10 21 m- 3 , thereby requiring a containment time of several seconds and a plasma radius of about 1 m. Meanwhile studies of the plasma focus, which after its three-dimensional compression closely resembles a Z -pinch, have shown that a plasma of density 10 25 m- 3 and temperature 1 keV can be achieved in a narrow filament of radius 1 mm. It has enhanced stability properties which might be attributable to the effects of finite ion Larmor radius. Its neutron yield in deuterium can be as high as 10 12 per discharge, with a favourable empirical scaling law, but the thermonuclear origin of the neutrons is doubtful because of the evidence of centre-of-mass motion and the formation of electron and ion beams. The development of high voltage, high current pulse technology has permitted the reconsideration of the Z -pinch to attain dense fusion plasmas which might be stabilized by scaling the ion Larmor radius to be comparable with the pinch radius. Experiments at Imperial College show that the plasma remains stationary for about twenty Alfven radial transit times, limited only by the period of the current waveform. Theory indicates that a dense compact Z -pinch can satisfy Lawson conditions with a power input dependent on the enhanced stability time, or, if stable, with ohmic heating balancing axial heat losses. Preliminary results on a laser-initiated Z -pinch are also presented.


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