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A turbulent flow in an aluminium electrolysis cell driven by the electromagnetic force due to the electric current passing through the liquid layers of aluminium and electrolyte, and the magnetic field of this current and the currents in supplying leads, is analysed by means of numerical and experimental simulation.The experimental cell models the electric current and magnetic field distributions in dependence of the nonuniform current loads in the anode and cathode elements, and the associated flow driven in the single fluid layer (mercury). The mathematical model uses effectively the small relative depth of the fluid layers and enables to simulate economically the three-dimensional distributions of electric current and magnetic field, the horizontal flow and the interface deformation.
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Bojarevics, V., Chaikovskij, A.I., Gorbachev, E.V., Kalis, H., Millere, R., Shcherbinin, E.V. (1989). Physical and Mathematical Modeling of MHD-Processes in Aluminium Reduction Cell. In: Lielpeteris, J., Moreau, R. (eds) Liquid Metal Magnetohydrodynamics. Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0999-1_25
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