The Laboratory is part of the Department of Physical Hydrodynamics.
Head of the Department: Frick Peter Gotlobovich
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Head of the Laboratory: Kolesnichenko Ilya Vladimirovich
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Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is one of the priority research areas of the Institute. Active development of this area began in 1972 when Igor Mikhailovich Kirko, full member of the Latvian SSR, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, arrived in Perm. I.M. KIrko served as head of the Laboratory of Physical Hydrodynamics until 1986. In 2018, part of the laboratory was transformed into the young scientists laboratory of technological hydrodynamics, whose scientific activity is focused on MHD technological applications. The Laboratory studies the fundamental aspects of MHD flow creation and control, which play a key role in many technological processes in metallurgy, atomic energy engineering and the new material industry. Extensive experience in the experimental work conducted on liquid metal circuits using gallium, tin, aluminum and sodium is strengthened by numerical approaches. The laboratory team is creating new devices for stirring and pumping liquid metals. Electromagnetic pumps for sodium coolant are designed in cooperation with the KB ArmSpetsMash LLC. To meet the demands of the nuclear power industry, a sodium circuit for testing MHD devices was created in 2018 through working together with the NITsMSS LLS.
Many years’ experience makes it possible to solve a vast range of MHD problems associated with heat and mass transfer processes, heat flow control and management of crystallization, and to create measurement equipment for aggressive environments. Competitive and environmentally friendly modern MHD devices developed from fundamental research are supplied to different industrial enterprises. Original developments of the Laboratory are in demand in metallurgy, space technologies and nuclear power engineering. Problems linked with fast sodium or lead-cooled neutron reactors BN-600, BN-800 (in operation) and BN-1200 and BREST (under construction) are of particular relevance.
Electromagnetic non-contact stirring of liquid metals and alloys for controlling crystallization process
Losev G.L. et al. PNRPU Mechanics Bulletin. 2022. No 4. P.170-179
Study of heat mass transfer in liquid metals used as coolants in nuclear reactors
Kolesnichenko I.V. et al. Heat power engineering. 2023. No 3. P.49-57
Induction generation of flows in conducting liquid media by travelling and rotating magnetic fields
Khalilov R.I. et al. Magnetohydrodynamics. 2015. V. 51. No. 1. P. 95–103
Conduction generation of electrovortex flows in conducting liquid media
Frick P.G. et al. J. Fluid Mech. 2022. V. 949. Article No. A20
Electromagnetic separation of electroconducting disperse systems
Mamykin A.D. et al. Magnetohydrodynamics. 2021. V. 57. P. 73–84
Development of MHD devices (pumps, stirrers, flow meters) and creation of digital twins for equipment
Kolesnichenko I. et al. Magnetohydrodynamics. 2021. V. 57. P. 547–557