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Heat Transfer Research

ISSN for PRINT: 1064-2285

Institutional price:	$2485.00
Issues per year:	8

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2004, Volume35

134 pages

DOI: 10.1615/HeatTransRes.v35.i12

Issue price - $674.00

Direct Numerical Modeling of Mercury Turbulent Convection in Axisymmetric Reservoirs, Including Magnetic Field Effects

A. G. Abramov
St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia

A. B. Korsakov
St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia

ABSTRACT

Turbulent modes of mercury convection (Pr = 0.025) in closed cylindrical reservoirs are studied by a method of direct numerical modeling. Results of the calculation of convection in a reservoir heated from below at Rayleigh numbers (Ra) equal to 10⁵ and 10⁶ are presented. MHD effects are studied under the boundary conditions which are similar to those realized in the setups of the Czochralski method at Ra = 8.45·10⁶ . Calculation results are compared with the available experimental and numerical data.