This research group focuses on optimising the control of heating, cooling and flow properties of conductive fluids, especially liquid metals – the work combines applications of engineering science, physics and mathematics. Expertise includes instabilities and turbulence in MHD flows, Flows in rotating, alternating, and travelling magnetic fields and magneto-thermo-elasticity.
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and Electromagnetic Processing of Materials
Coventry University
Group leader: Prof. Sergei Molokov
Ph.D. Students: Lee Braiden, Gerasimos Politis
Recent Ph.D. Completions: Agnieszka Hudoba
This research group focuses on optimising the control of heating, cooling and flow properties of conductive fluids, especially liquid metals – the work combines applications of engineering science, physics and mathematics. Expertise includes instabilities and turbulence in MHD flows, Flows in rotating, alternating, and travelling magnetic fields and magneto-thermo-elasticity.
Research themes include:
Website: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/manufacturing-materials-engineering/mhdepm/