Liquid Metal Flows : Magnetohydrodynamics and Application.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. Laminar MHD Flows -- Three-Dimensional Laminar MHD Flow in Ducts with Thin Metal Walls and Strong Magnetic Fields -- MHD Flows with Closed Streamlines -- Magnetically Driven Secondary Flows in Annular Cavities -- Experience with Permanent Magnet Probes for the Measurement of Local Velocities in Liquid Metals -- Local Measurements of a Magnetic Perturbation Field in the Up- and Downstream Wake of a Cylinder -- Nonlinear Wave of Liquid Metals under a Transverse Magnetic Field -- Investigation of Pressure Losses and Apparent Viscosity Incurred by Periodic Electromagnetic Forces -- Chapter II. MHD Power Generation -- Liquid-Metal MHD Conversion of Nuclear Energy to Electricity: Possibilities and Implications -- Hybrid OMACON: An Optimum Liquid-Metal MHD System Configuration? -- Application Studies for the OMACON Liquid-Metal MHD Concept -- Testing of OMACON-Type MHD Power Systems -- Liquid/Gas Separation Study in Liquid-Metal MHD Systems -- Liquid Jet Gas Pump as Mixer Element withTwo-Phase Liquid Metal MHD Generator and Compressor Systems -- Some Aspects of a Liquid-Metal Induction Generator -- High-Efficiency Flow Coupler:A New Approach to Pumping Sodium in Liquid-Metal Reactors -- Feasibility Study on using Homopolar Motors Coupled to Synchronous Generators to Convert DC Power from a Liquid-Metal MHD System to AC Power -- MFD Applications of Electromagnetic Field Solutions in Multilayered Geometries -- Some of the MHD Effects in Liquid-Metal Fast Breeder Reactors -- Observation of Magnetic Field Generation and Distortion in the Phenix Liquid-Metal Fast Breeder Reactor -- Plasma-Driven MHD Powerplant -- Chapter III. Metallurgical Applications -- Metallurgy + MHD = Innovative Technologies -- Turbulent Recirculating Flows in Liquid-Metal MHD.

Modeling Recirculating Flows in Channel Induction Furnaces -- Primary and Secondary Flows in the Rotary Magnetic Stirring of Molten Steel -- Hydrodynamics of Aluminum Reduction Cells -- Numerical Coupled Model for Electromagnetic Stirring in Continuous Casting of Steel -- Horizontal Moldless Electromagnetic Continuous Casting: A Normal Mode Stability Analysis -- Free Surface Determination in Levitation Melting Process -- Solidification of a Pure Metal in the Presence of Rotating Flows -- Chapter IV. Two-Phase Flow -- Computational Methods for Two-Phase Flow in Networks -- Parametric Interactions of Waves in Bubbly Liquid Metals -- Occurrence of Cavitation in Water Jets -- Two-Phase Flow Diagnostics in Reactive Systems -- Author Index.

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