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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Keiji Miyazaki, Shoji Kotake, Nobuo Yamaoka, Shoji Inoue, Yoichi Fujii-E
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An experiment on electric potential and pressure drop for NaK flow in uniform trnasverse magnetic fields was conducted. A test channel was constructed using 45.3 mm (or 28 mm) I.D. and 1.65 mm thick 304-SS circular pipe in the NaK-Blowdown MHD Experimental Facility of Osaka University. The experimental range covered had a driving gas pressure <8 bar, an applied magnetic flux density: B0=0.3∼1. 75 T, a mean flow velocity of NaK: U0=2∼ 15 m/sec, a Reynolds number Re=8×l04∼6.2×l05 and a Hartmann number: Ha=740∼4150. A theoretical analysis is given on the basis of a uniform-velocity thick-wall model. Good agreement between the theory and the experiment were obtained both for the potential and for the pressure drop, except a small deviation of the experimental pressure drop towards values lying above the theoretical ones in a weak B0 and high U0 region (Ha2/Re <15).