Igor R Kirillov

TL;DR: A review of experimental work on magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and heat transfer (HT) characteristics of liquid metal flows in fusion relevant conditions is presented in this paper, where experiments on MHD flow pressure drop in straight channels of round and rectangular cross-section with electroconducting walls in a transverse magnetic field show good agreement with theoretical predictions, and simple engineering formulas are confirmed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on recent research into magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) phenomena applicable to fusion technology and show that the maximum enhancement for liquid Lithium occurs for values of the interaction parameter in the N=10-20 range.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of numerical and experimental studies of liquid metal heat transfer in slotted channels in a transverse magnetic field are presented, showing that the Nusselt number at small N (around 120) was up to twofold higher than in turbulent flow without a magnetic field, the Peclet number being equal.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental investigation of the MHD performance of candidate insulator materials and the technology for putting them in place, a new test section was prepared, and it was demonstrated that the increase in MHD pressure drop above the theoretical values is largely due to the presence of instrumentation penetrations in the test section walls, which provided current paths from the fluid to the walls of the pipe, resulting in local areas of near-bare-wall MHDpressure drop.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of experimental results is presented for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow in rectangular channels with conducting walls and high aspect ratios (longer side parallel to the applied magnetic field), which are called slotted channels.