Study of liquid metal flow and passive impurity transport driven by a traveling magnetic field in a rectangular cavity

Authors

  • Pavel Aleksandrovich Oborin Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics UB RAS
  • Stanislav Yurievich Khripchenko Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics UB RAS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7242/1999-6691/2013.6.2.24

Keywords:

MHD, MHD-stirring, traveling magnetic field, passive impurity transport

Abstract

The objective of this work is to study and model the process of homogenization of impurities in a cavity filled with liquid metal under electromagnetic stirring conditions and to find optimal conditions for manufacturing high-quality alloys. We have investigated the flow of a conducting fluid in a rectangular cavity under the action of a traveling magnetic field and the transport of passive impurities in this flow. The effect of three-phase current, flowing through an inductor for magnetic field generation, on the flow rate and passive impurity distribution has been analyzed.

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2013-07-17

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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013)

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Oborin, P. A., & Khripchenko, S. Y. (2013). Study of liquid metal flow and passive impurity transport driven by a traveling magnetic field in a rectangular cavity. Computational Continuum Mechanics, 6(2), 207-213. https://doi.org/10.7242/1999-6691/2013.6.2.24