some new parallel flows in weakly conducting fluids with an exponentially decaying lorentz force一些新的并行流在弱导电液体和一个指数衰减的洛伦兹力.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2007, Article ID 87814, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2007/87814 Research Article Some New Parallel Flows in Weakly Conducting Fluids with an Exponentially Decaying Lorentz Force Asterios Pantokratoras Received 8 March 2007; Revised 27 May 2007; Accepted 19 September 2007 Recommended by Mehrdad Massoudi We investigate the fully developed flow between two parallel plates and the film flow over a plate in an electrically conducting fluid under the action of a parallel Lorentz force. The Lorentz force varies exponentially in the vertical direction due to low-fluid electrical conductivity and the special arrangement of the magnetic and electric fields at the lower plate. Exact analytical solutions are derived for velocity, flow rate, and wall shear stress at the plates. The velocity results are presented in figures. All these flows are new and are presented for the first time in the literature. Copyright © 2007 Asterios Pantokratoras. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is the study of the interaction between magnetic fields and moving conducting fluids. The simplest MHD flow is the flow between two infinite, horizontal, parallel plates under the action of an external vertical magnetic field and a horizontal electric field (Figure 1.1). This type of flow was first investigated by Hartmann and Lazarus [1] and is called the Hartmann flow (Davidson [2, page 153]). In 1961 Gaili- tis and Lielausis [3] introduced the idea of using a Lorentz force to control the flow of an electrically conducting fluid over a flat plate. This is achieved by applying an exter- nal electromagnetic field (see Figure 1.2) by a stripwise arrangement of flush mounted electrodes and permanent magnets of alternat