Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Metallurgical Technologies -- Metallurgical Applications of Magnetohydrodynamics -- Research and Development in the Field of MHDDevices Utilizing Liquid Working Medium for Process Applications -- Application of MHD Facilities to Technology -- Electromagnetic Modulation of Molten Metal Flow -- Superconducting MHD Devices: Parametric Study of an Electromagnetic Pump Performance -- Induction Electromagnetic Pumps for Alkali Metals:Status and Perspectives -- Physical Model for Electromagnetically Driven Flowin Channel Induction Furnaces -- Grain Refinement in Aluminum Alloys by an Electromagnetic Vibrational Method -- Dendrite Growth of Solidifying Metal in DC Magnetic Field -- MHD Means for Affecting Hydrodynamics,Heat Transfer, and Mass Transfer at Single Crystal Melt Growth -- Inverse Electromagnetic Shaping Problem -- Chapter 2. Energy Conversion -- Major Engineering Physics for Optimization of the Sea water Superconducting Electromagnetic Thruster -- Liquid-Metal MHD Research and Development in Israel -- OMACON Technology for Seawater Desalination -- MHD Generator for Waste Heat Utilization in Northern Conditions -- Recent Results on LMMHD Induction Generators -- Analytical and Experimental Studies of End Effects in an LMMHD Generator -- Theoretical Magnetic Field Distributions Eliminating End Losses in Linear High Magnetic ReynoldsNumber MHD Channels -- Embrittlement of Steels by Lead -- Materials Compatibility of Mercury for Practical Applications at Elevated Temperatures -- Status of MHD Energy Conversion Research in Poland -- Open Cycle Disk Generator Operating Conditions -- Conceptual Design of an MHD Retrofit of the Corette Plant in Billings, Montana -- Constricted Discharges in Ar-Cs MHD Generators -- Pseudo Two-Phase Flow in an Open-Cycle MHD Generator.

Analysis of Flow Parameters in MHD Channel at Various Load Conditions -- Simulation and Comparison with the Experiment:The Dynamic Processes in an MHD Facility Flow Train -- Acceleration of Gas-Liquid Piston Flows for Molten-Metal MHD Generators -- Recent Developments in Liquid-Metal MHD Thermoacoustic Engines -- Chapter 3. Magnetohydrodynamic Flows -- Interfacial Instabilities in the Presence of Electric Current and Magnetic Field -- Survey of Liquid-Metal MHD Activities in Dresden -- Experiments with a Superconducting Magnet on an InGaSn Loop -- Comparision of the Core Flow Solution and the Full Solution for MHD Flow -- Hydrodynamics and Heat Transfer of Thin Liquid-Metal Films in a Magnetic Field -- Effects of a Vertical Magnetic Field on Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Mercury -- MHD Flow Around a Cylinder in an Aligned Magnetic Field -- Electromagnetically Driven Flow Around a Cylinder -- New Results for MHD Drag Coefficients -- Heat Transfer in an MHD Flow Inside a Channel with Walls of Finite Thickness -- Instability of a Liquid-Metal Surface in a Low-Frequency Alternating Magnetic Field -- Chapter 4. Two-Phase Flows -- Natural Convection over a Vertical Heated Flat Plate with Gas Injection and in the Presenceof a Magnetic Field -- Nucleate Boiling of Mercury in the Presence of a Horizontal Magnetic Field -- Direct Contact Heat Transfer in Two-Phase Gas Liquid Flow -- Heat and Kinetic Energy Transfer in Two-Phase Flow: Theoretical Aspects -- Nuclear Void Fraction Gaging in Large Two-Phase Organic Liquid-Metal MHD Generators -- Liquid-Metal Magnetohydrodynamic Two-Phase Flow Experiment -- Investigation of Two-Phase Liquid Gas Mixers for MHD Energy Conversion Systems -- Two-Phase Flow Measurements in Reaction Systems -- Author Index.