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Article Dans Une Revue Physics of Fluids Année : 2010

Selective control of Poiseuille-Rayleigh-Bénard instabilities by a spanwise magnetic field

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The stability of a pressure driven flow in an electrically conducting fluid heated from below and subjected to a spanwise constant magnetic field is investigated through a linear stability analysis. The numerical calculations show that such a magnetic field only affects the longitudinal stationary modes L , which are stabilized, and has no effect on the transverse traveling modes T . A direct consequence is the expansion of the domain where the transverse traveling T modes prevail. This expansion is controlled by the strength of the spanwise magnetic field, expressed through the Hartmann number Ha, ratio of magnetic to viscous dissipation forces . Moreover, when Ha exceeds a limiting value depending on the Prandtl number, the T modes become the only dominant modes in the whole Re range. Particular attention was dedicated to the oblique modes O corresponding to fully three-dimensional disturbances in order to verify that they never become the dominant modes when the magnetic field is applied, similarly to what was found without magnetic field. From a practical point of view, these results could be of a great interest since it is known that theoptimization of several processes involving the Poiseuille-Rayleigh-Bénard flow is achieved when the traveling T modes prevail.
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hal-00566033 , version 1 (07-06-2012)

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Walid Fakhfakh, Slim Kaddeche, Daniel Henry, Hamda Ben Hadid. Selective control of Poiseuille-Rayleigh-Bénard instabilities by a spanwise magnetic field. Physics of Fluids, 2010, 22, pp.034103. ⟨10.1063/1.3327287⟩. ⟨hal-00566033⟩
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