Laminar Steady-State Magnetohydrodynamic Flow in an Annular Channel

Abstract

The problem considered is the steady flow of an electrically conducting, incompressible fluid, in the annular space between two infinitely long circular cylinders, under a radially impressed magnetic field. The general magnetohydrodynamic equations are simplified by the conditions of the problem to three equations in pressure, velocity, and magnetic field. One equation gives the pressure variation in the radial direction; the other two are coupled equations for the velocity and magnetic field, which are functions of the radial variable only and may be solved for in closed form. In the limiting case where the radii of the annulus become infinite, but their difference remains finite, the solution converges on the expression for magnetohydrodynamic flow between infinite planes under a transverse magnetic field.