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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
Hiroshige Kumamaru
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 2 | February 2023 | Pages 135-150
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2107311
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Numerical calculations are conducted for liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamic flows through a circular pipe with an electrically conducting wall in both the magnetic field inlet region and the outlet region. Conservation equations of fluid mass and of fluid momentum and the Poisson equation for electrical potential are solved numerically. The calculations are performed by a cylindrical coordinate system using a staggered grid in order to obtain numerically stable solutions, covering Hartmann numbers up to the order of 10 000. As to the loss coefficient ζ for the pressure drop, the value of ζ/(Ha2/Re) does not depend on the Ha number, the Re number, and the wall conductance ratio very much for both the magnetic field inlet section and the outlet section. The value of ζ/(Ha2/Re) changes mainly with the gradient of the applied magnetic field for both the magnetic field inlet section and the outlet section.