抄録
A three-dimensional numerical calculation has been performed on liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow through a rectangular channel in the outlet region of the magnetic field, including a region downstream the magnetic field section. The continuity equation, the momentum equation and the induction equation have been solved numerically by the finite difference method. Along the flow axis (i.e. the channel axis), the pressure decreases rapidly as a fully-developed MHD flow, drops more rapidly in the magnetic-field outlet-region, and finally decreases slowly as a normal non-MHD flow. The pressure recovery that was observed in the magnetic-field inlet-region does not appear in the magnetic-field outlet-region. The total pressure drop through the magnetic-field outlet-region is larger than that through the magnetic-field outlet-region is larger than that through the magnetic-field inlet-region. The flow velocity distribution also changes gradually from a flat profile of a fully-developed MHD flow to a parabolic profile of a non-HMD laminar flow.
