抄録
A steady flow of liquid metals in curved circular channels under a transversely applied magnetic field is investigated theoretically and experimentally. A laminar flow in low Dean number region is analyzed numerically. The internal mechanisms. i.e. velocity profile. distributions of current densities and others. are made clear. Based on the result. the resistance coefficients for the laminar flow in high Dean number region are calculated by means of boundary layer approximate method. An experimental study is carried out on a mercury flow. Pressure loss is measured and the resistance coefficient obtained by this experiment is shown to be in good agreement with that of the the theoretical analysis. And the effects of the electrical conductivity of channel wall on the behavior of flow are examined.
