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Liquid Metal Stirs Itself
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:22 am
by Axil
Thermoelectric Magnetohydrodynamic Stirring of Liquid Metals
http://focus.aps.org/story/v25/st8
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:16 am
by choff
Interesting, I wonder if this effect could be used by General Fusion.
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:13 pm
by MSimon
I wonder if something like this could simulate plasma flows in magnetic fields that would be easier to measure than tenuous plasmas.
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:47 pm
by DeltaV
An analog computer!
Data acquisition through liquid metal might be a problem though.
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:55 pm
by MSimon
DeltaV wrote:An analog computer!
Data acquisition through liquid metal might be a problem though.
X-Rays - in real time.
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:06 pm
by DeltaV
If the density range is adequate for similitude and x-ray discrimination... near-incompressibility of the liquid metal is probably a showstopper.