Study of instabilities in a quasi-2D MHD duct flow with an inflectional velocity profile
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The mechanisms responsible for instabilities and a transition to turbulence in liquid metal duct flows of a fusion blanket are not understood very well, which limits predictive capabilities for heat and material transport in a blanket. In order to elucidate such mechanisms in quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) magnetohydrodynamic flows with inflection points, an experimental and computational effort is underway to electromagnetically induce a Q2D turbulent flow through the injection of current at the Hartmann walls. In such a flow, inflectional instabilities arise at the two locations where current is supplied. In iquid metal magnetohydrodynamics ide layer
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