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Magnetohydrodynamic flow of a viscous fluid past a sphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Richard Van Blerkom
Richard Van Blerkom
Affiliation:
International Business Machines Corporation
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Abstract

The flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid past a sphere is studied; the uniform ambient flow field is colinear with the ambient uniform magnetic field. The force exerted on the sphere is computed for various conductivities and Reynolds numbers; of particular interest is the distinction in behaviour between the flow with ambient particle speed greater than ambient Alfvén speed and that with particle speed less than Alfvén speed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 1960 , pp. 432 - 441
Copyright
© 1960 Cambridge University Press

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