Constrained flow around a magnetic obstacle

Abstract

Many practical applications exploit an external local magnetic field -- magnetic obstacle -- as an essential part of their constructions. Recently, it has been demonstrated that the flow of an electrically conducting fluid influenced by an external field can show several kinds of recirculation. The present paper reports a 3D numerical study whose some results are compared with an experiment about such a flow in a rectangular duct.

accepted to JFM, 26 pages, 14 figures

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• Structure of the Wake of a Magnetic Obstacle
• A geostrophic-like model for large Hartmann number flows

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