Investigation of self-oscillations in electrovortex flow of liquid metal

Yu. P. Ivochkin - I. O. Teplyakov - D. A. Vinogradov

RAS Joint Institute for High Temperature, 13-2 Izhorskaya str., 125412 Moscow, Russia

Abstract
With the help of numerical and experimental methods it was shown that a stationary external magnetic field, which causes an azimuthal swirl of axisymmetric electric flow, leads to the generation of intensive hydrodynamic self-oscillating processes in a current-carrying liquid metal. Calculations are in good agreement with experimental data. Figs 9, Refs 17.