Effect of Wall Electrical Conductance on Magnetohydrodynamic Heat Transfer in a Channel

Abstract

Effect of wall electrical conductance on laminar fully developed magnetohydrodynamic heat transfer in a channel with constant wall heat flux and exact magnetohydrodynamic boundary conditions are investigated. For channels with insulated walls, viscous dissipation is more important than joule heating for all Ec and M. For sufficiently large wall conductance, viscous dissipation is dominated by joule heating for all Ec, if M is large enough; both are in turn dominated by wall heat flux if Ec is large enough for all M. These and other conclusions are discussed in this paper.