The heat transfer rate of natural convection in liquid gallium in a cubical enclosure was measured experimentally under an external magnetic field applied horizontally and parallel to the vertical heated wall and the opposing cooled wall and the opposing cooled wall of the enclosure. One vertical wall was heated with an electric heater and the opposing wall was cooled isothermally with running water. Experiments were conducted in the range of modified Rayleigh number from 1.85 × 106 to 4.76 × 106 and of Hartmann number from 0 to 573. The average Nusselt number was measured and found to increase when a moderate magnetic field was applied, but to decrease under a stronger magnetic field. This result means that the heat transfer rate has a maximum value at a certain moderate magnetic field, which supports our previous numerical analyses.

Issue Section:
Natural and Mixed Convection
Keywords:
Enhancement, Heat Transfer, Liquid Metals, Magnetic, Natural Convection
Topics:
Gallium, Heat transfer, Magnetic fields, Natural convection
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