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The distortion of a magnetic field by flow in a shock tube

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

M. D. Cowley
M. D. Cowley
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
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Abstract

Induced magnetic fields in shock-tube flows have been measured by previous authors, in order to determine the electrical conductivity of ionized gases. Distortion of the applied magnetic field was taken to be small. In the present work, the full magnetic field solution is developed for idealized boundary conditions. At a magnetic Reynolds number equal to 4 the distortion is found to be considerable, but the field is well represented by a solution correct to third order in magnetic Reynolds number. The axial field in a real shock-tube configuration was computed, and experimentally measured fields were found to agree reasonably with theory.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1961 , pp. 567 - 576
Copyright
© 1961 Cambridge University Press

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