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附加层对圆柱几何中定常运动发电机的矛盾效应:应用于VKS实验

Ambivalent effects of added layers on steady kinematic dynamos in cylindrical geometry: application to the VKS experiment

F. Stefani, M. Xu, G. Gerbeth, F. Ravelet, A. Chiffaudel, F. Daviaud, J. Léorat

摘要:

“冯卡门钠”(VKS)实验的目的是研究高度湍流和无约束流中的磁流体发电机效应。为了使临界磁雷诺数和所需的电机功率最小化,人们在平均流和侧边界条件的优化上做了大量的工作。本文的主要重点在于“盖层”的作用,即叶轮和圆柱体端壁之间的液体钠层。首先,我们研究的分析测试流程,盖层可以有矛盾的效果上的发电机的效率。临界磁雷诺数显示了一个平坦的最小值为一个小的盖层厚度,但增加较厚的层。对于实际的VKS几何形状,它表明,静态盖层产生的临界磁雷诺数约12%.A更显着的增加100,直到150%的临界磁雷诺数的适度增加可以发生时,考虑到在这些层中的一些旋转流。这个问题的可能的解决方案进行了讨论,为真正的发电机设施。

英文摘要:

The intention of the ''von Karman sodium'' (VKS) experiment is to study the hydromagnetic dynamo effect in a highly turbulent and unconstrained flow. Much effort has been devoted to the optimization of the mean flow and the lateral boundary conditions in order to minimize the critical magnetic Reynolds number and hence the necessary motor power. The main focus of this paper lies on the role of ''lid layers'', i.e. layers of liquid sodium between the impellers and the end walls of the cylinder. First, we study an analytical test flow to show that lid layers can have an ambivalent effect on the efficiency of the dynamo. The critical magnetic Reynolds number shows a flat minimum for a small lid layer thickness, but increases for thicker layers. For the actual VKS geometry it is shown that static lid layers yield a moderate increase of the critical magnetic Reynolds number by approximately 12 per cent. A more dramatic increase by 100 until 150 per cent can occur when some rotational flow is taken into account in those layers. Possible solutions of this problem are discussed for the real dynamo facility.

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