Coupling and stability of interfacial waves in liquid metal batteries
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DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.223zbMATH Open1406.76088arXiv1708.02159OpenAlexW2963660647WikidataQ129974242 ScholiaQ129974242MaRDI QIDQ4614403FDOQ4614403
Authors: G. M. Horstmann, Norbert Weber, Tom Weier 
Publication date: 31 January 2019
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We investigate the interfacial wave coupling dynamics in liquid metal batteries and their effects to the battery's operation safety. Similar to aluminum reduction cells, liquid metal batteries can be highly susceptible to magnetohydrodynamical instabilities that excite undesired interfacial waves capable to provoke short-circuits. However, in liquid metal batteries the wave dynamics is far more complex since two metal-electrolyte interfaces are present that may step into resonance. In the first part of this paper, we present a Potential analysis of coupled gravity-capillary interfacial waves in a three-layer battery model of cylindrical shape. Analytical expressions for the amplitude ratio and the wave frequencies are derived and it is shown that the wave coupling can be completely described by two independent dimensionless parameters. We provide a decoupling criterion clarifying that wave coupling will be present in most future liquid metal batteries. In the second part, the theory is validated by comparing it with multiphase direct numerical simulations. An accompanying parameter study is conducted to analyze the system stability for differently strongly coupled interfaces. Three different coupling regimes are identified involving characteristic coupling dynamics. For strongly coupled interfaces we observe novel instabilities that may have beneficial effects on the operational safety.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02159
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