Magnetohydrodynamic streaming flow past a sphere at low Hartmann numbers

The streaming flow of a weakly conducting viscous fluid past a nonconducting sphere in the presence of an aligned uniform magnetic field is investigated for low Hartmann numbers using a Galerkin method. If convection effects are neglected, it is found that eddies occur symmetrically fore and aft of the sphere when the Hartmann number exceeds 2.9.