Thermoelectric magnetohydrodynamics
Abstract
The reported investigation is concerned with the establishment of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics and thermal convection when coupled by thermoelectricity. Some illustrative problems in which the thermal field is known ab initio are solved. Examples where the effects are due to either continuous or discontinuous variation of material composition are included. Practical magnitudes are discussed for the case of a fusion-reactor blanket, where the effects are potentially important owing to the unusual thermoelectric power of lithium.
- Publication:
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Pub Date:
- March 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0022112079000136
- Bibcode:
- 1979JFM....91..231S
- Keywords:
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- Blankets (Fusion Reactors);
- Ducted Flow;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Flow;
- Reactor Design;
- Thermoelectric Power Generation;
- Boundary Value Problems;
- Energy Technology;
- Hartmann Flow;
- Lithium;
- Thermocouples;
- Thermoelectricity;
- Two Dimensional Flow;
- Plasma Physics