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Numerical simulation of electrovortex flows in cylindrical fluid layers and liquid metal batteries

W. Herreman*, C. Nore, and P. Ziebell Ramos

L. Cappanera

J.-L. Guermond

N. Weber

  • Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur, LIMSI, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Bât 507, Campus Universitaire F-91405 Orsay, France

  • Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 6100 Main MS-134 Houston, Texas 77005, USA

  • Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University 3368 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-3368, USA

  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany

  • *wietze.herreman@limsi.fr
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 113702 – Published 6 November, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.113702

Abstract

We use the multiphase magnetohydrodynamic code SFEMaNS to study the generation of electrovortex flows in liquid metal batteries. We first reproduce some well known results in a single-phase liquid metal column and then we characterize the electrovortex flow in layered multiphase fluid systems. A simple energy density balance argument accurately estimates the typical interface deformation caused by the electrovortex flow. When applied to Mg-Sb liquid metal batteries, we find that the electrovortex flows may have the capacity to cause short circuits even in moderate size batteries with radii in the range [10,20]cm.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 113702– Published 6 November, 2019
  • Received 24 July 2019
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