Thermo-magnetic convection in strong magnetic field gradients

Research goal

This is a joint project between Transport Phenomena Section, Department of Chemical Engineering at the TU Delft and the Department of Fundamental Research in Energy Engineering, Faculty of Energy and Fuels, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. The project is aimed at fundamental investigations of flow stability and wall heat transfer of paramagnetic fluids in presence of strong magnetic field gradients. 

Top: the iso-surfaces of the temperature for different strengths of the imposed magnetic field, |b0|max = 0, 2, 5 T and a fixed value of Pr = 400 for a cubical enclosure filled with the paramagnetic fluid. Bottom: distributions of the local Nusselt number at the lower (hot) wall. The characteristic value of thermal Rayleigh number for the neutral case is RaT= 2x105, Kenjeres (2016).

Researcher

Prof. J. S. Szmyd
Dr. E. Fornalik-Wajs

Cooperations

AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

Funded by

EC Marie Curie
TU Delft
AGH Krakow