MHD Turbulence at Moderate Magnetic Raynolds Number
Abstract
Magnetohydrodynamics applies to many conductive fluid and plasma flows encountered in nature and in industrial applications. In numerous circumstances, the flow is subject to a strong mean magnetic field. This happens in the earth's liquid core and is ubiquitous in solar physics for topics like sunspots, solar flares, solar corona, solar wind etc. Mean magnetic fields play an important role on even larger scales, for instance in the dynamics of the interstellar medium. Among the industrial applications involving applied external magnetic fields are drag reduction in duct flows, design of efficient coolant blankets in tokamac fusion reactors, control of turbulence of immersed jets in the steel casting process and advanced propulsion and flow control schemes for hypersonic vehicles.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADP014825
Entities
People
- B. Knaepen
- D. Carati
- S. Kassinos
Organizations
- Université Libre de Bruxelles