A hybrid finite difference-boundary element procedure for the simulation of turbulent MHD duct flow at finite magnetic Reynolds number

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.10.007zbMATH Open1349.76427arXiv1510.01205OpenAlexW2193496289MaRDI QIDQ2374890FDOQ2374890

Authors: Vinodh Bandaru, Thomas Boeck, Dmitry Krasnov, Jörg Schumacher 

Publication date: 5 December 2016

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A conservative coupled finite difference-boundary element computational procedure for the simulation of turbulent magnetohydrodynamic flow in a straight rectangular duct at finite magnetic Reynolds number is presented. The flow is assumed to be periodic in the streamwise direction and is driven by a mean pressure gradient. The duct walls are considered to be electrically insulating. The co-evolution of the velocity and magnetic fields as described respectively by the Navier-Stokes and the magnetic induction equations, together with the coupling of the magnetic field between the conducting domain and the non-conducting exterior is solved using the magnetic field formulation. The aim is to simulate localized magnetic fields interacting with turbulent duct flow. Detailed verification of the implementation of the numerical scheme is conducted in the limiting case of low magnetic Reynolds number by comparing with the results obtained using a quasistatic approach that has no coupling with the exterior. The rigorous procedure with non-local magnetic boundary conditions is compared versus simplified pseudo-vacuum boundary conditions and the differences are quantified. Our first direct numerical simulations of turbulent Hartmann duct flow at moderate magnetic Reynolds numbers and a low flow Reynolds number show significant differences in the duct flow turbulence, even at low interaction level between the flow and magnetic field

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01205

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zbMATH Keywords

exterior problemmagnetohydrodynamicsboundary integral methodmagnetohydrodynamic turbulencemagnetic Reynolds number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15) Boundary element methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M38)

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