banner.jpg 104 Study of High Reynolds Number MHD Flow Stabilized with Magnetic and Its Heat Transfer A. D. Abin Rejeesh1,a, T. V. S. Sekhar2, B. Muthukumar1 and R. Sivakumar1 1Department of Physics, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. aabin.d.alex@gmail.com 2School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India. sekhartvs@iitbbs.ac.in ABSTRACT

The direct impact of magnetic field on an electrically conducting, incompressible, viscous fluid flow past over a circular cylinder and its forced convective heat transfer is studies using a higher order compact finite difference scheme. The parameters in this study are the Reynolds number, magnetic Reynolds number, Prandtl number and Alfvén number (β). Results are presented for Re = 500, Pr = 0.73 for different Rm and β in terms of isotherms, streamline plots. The heat transfer depends on both Rm and β and mean Nusselt number varies nonlinearly with Β.

Keywords: Magnetohydrodynamics, High accuracy numerical scheme, Heat transfer.

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