Electronic edition ISSN 1574-0579

Calculating the flow of nonuniformly conducting media in rectangular MHD channels

V. E. Kozyrenko

Abstract
A method is shown for the solution of problems concerning the distribution of electromagnetic fields in rectangular MHD channels with electrodes much smaller than the characteristic dimensions and with a stream of nonuniform conductivity .The results given here generalize well-known results obtained in gas dynamics and the theory of elasticity. These results, usually given in a simple closed form, serve effectively as a basis for calculating an MHD flow of such a kind.