The behavior of a jet in a channel with nonconducting walls in a transverse magnetic field

G. G. Branover - E. V. Shcherbinin

Institute of Physics, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Salaspils-1, LV-2169, Latvia

Abstract
In the experimental investigation of plane jets in mercury flowing into a rectangular channel with insulating walls, it turns out that when a transverse magnetic field is applied the stream behaves in quit a peculiar manner which may be described as follows. At a very small distance from where the stream enters the channel the flow practically ceases altogether in the original plane of the jet, and the entire flow is concentrated in two narrow layers close to the channel walls parallel to the magnetic field. Such a flow structure is preserved for a considerable distance. Figs 1.