Numerical study on performances and characteristics of magnetohydrodynamic converging channel
Received:August 05, 2009  Revised:September 24, 2010
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DOI:10.7511/jslx201105021
KeyWord:MHD-bypass scramjet  MHD generator  converging channel  numerical simulation  entropy-conditioned scheme
  
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吕浩宇 北京航空航天大学 宇航学院,北京
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Abstract:
      Numerical simulations were conducted to study magneto-hydrodynamic(MHD) flow in a converging channel at low magnetic Reynolds number by a numerical procedure composed of an entropy conditioned scheme for solving the non-homogeneous Navier-Stokes equations, in conjunction with an SOR method for solving the elliptic equation governing the electrical potential. Two kinds of channels with dissimilar geometry at different magnetic interaction parameter were investigated. It was found in the MHD converging channel, a separation would take place near the inlet of the channel on the electrode walls. The electric current lines would be increasingly distorted as the magnetic interactive parameter increased. Numerical results and comparisons indicated that the performance of the MHD channel with same cross-sections is better that the converging channel.