Constrained flow around a magnetic obstacle
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Many practical applications exploit an external local magnetic field – magnetic obstacle – as an essential part of their construction. Recently, Votyakov et al. (2007) have 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. First, we derive equations to compute analytically an external magnetic field and verify these equations by comparing with experimentally measured field intensity. Then, we study flow characteristics for different magnetic field configurations. The flow inside the magnetic gap is dependent mainly on the interaction parameter N , which represents the ratio of the Lorentz force to the inertial force. Depending on the constrainment factor κ = My/Ly, where My and Ly are half-widths of the external magnet and duct, the flow can show different stationary recirculation patterns: two magnetic vortices at small κ, a six-vortex ensemble at moderate κ, and no vortices at large κ. Recirculation appears when N is higher than a critical value Nc,m. The driving force for the recirculation is the reverse electromotive force that arises to balance the reverse electrostatic field. The reversion of the electrostatic field is caused by a concurrence of internal and external vorticity correspondingly related to the internal and external slopes in the M -shaped velocity profile. The critical value of Nc,m quickly grows as κ increases. For the case of well developed recirculation, the numerical reverse velocity agrees well with that obtained in physical experiments. Two different magnetic systems induce the same electric field and stagnancy region provided these systems have the same power of recirculation given by the N/Nc,m ratio. The 3D helical peculiarities of the vortices are elaborated, and an analogy is shown to exist between a helical motion inside the studied recirculation and a secondary motion in the process of the Ekman pumping. Finally, it is shown that a 2D model fails to properly produce stable two and six-vortex structures as found in the 3D system. Interestingly, these recirculation patterns appear only as time dependent and unstable transitional states before the Karman vortex street forms, when one suddenly applies a retarding local magnetic field on a constant flow.
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