Published August 18, 2006
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Journal article
Transport of Magnetic Field by a Turbulent Flow of Liquid Sodium
Creators
- 1. Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5672, 47 allee d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07 (France)
- 2. Service de Physique de l'Etat Condense, Direction des Sciences de la Matiere, CEA-Saclay, CNRS URA 2464, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex (France)
- 3. Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, CNRS UMR 8550, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France)
Description
We study the effect of a turbulent flow of liquid sodium generated in the von Karman geometry, on the localized field of a magnet placed close to the frontier of the flow. We observe that the field can be transported by the flow on distances larger than its integral length scale. In the most turbulent configurations, the mean value of the field advected at large distance vanishes. However, the rms value of the fluctuations increases linearly with the magnetic Reynolds number. The advected field is strongly intermittent
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.074501;
- arXiv
- arXiv:physics/0603210v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 97
- Journal Issue
- 7
- Journal Page Range
- p. 074501-074501.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38023654
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S58: GEOSCIENCES; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- FLUCTUATIONS; GEOMETRY; LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC REYNOLDS NUMBER; MAGNETS; SODIUM; TURBULENT FLOW
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALI METALS; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELEMENTS; EQUIPMENT; FLUID FLOW; FLUIDS; MATHEMATICS; METALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VARIATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2006 The American Physical Society