Numerical Modeling of Thermal and Flow Analysis of a Conduction Magneto-Hydrodynamic Pump

Abstract

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) is a scientific discipline which describes the behavior of a conducting fluid (Liquid or ionized gas called plasma) in the presence of electromagnetic fields, The MHD conversion is one of the applications of this discipline, it relates to the mechanical energy transformation of the movement of a fluid into electric power. This article is concerned with the study of a coupling between the stationary Maxwell equations, the transient state Navier Stokes and thermal equations in conduction magneto hydrodynamic pumps. The model developed computes the magnetic field   and calculates the velocity and the temperature using the finite volume method. The paper focuses on the analysis of the flux density, the electromagnetic thrust, the electric power density, the velocity, and the temperature in the channel of the MHD pump.