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Flow of a conducting fluid past a circular cylinder in a transverse magnetic field

Kh. E. Kalis - A. B. Tsinober - A. G. Shtern - E. V. Shcherbinin

Abstract
This paper presents the results of numerical] calculations of magnetohydrodynamical flow around a circular cylinder, based on the exact Navier--Stokes equations, and a qualitative comparison of these results with experiment on the flow past cylinders of a conducting fluid in a transverse magnetic field. The calculation were made for Re=40, since this is the number for which the flow calculations in ordinary hydrodynamics [1-3] were made. Although the experiments were conducted at considerably higher Reynolds numbers. a qualitative comparison still gives most interesting results. Tables 1, Figs. 8, Refs 8.