MHD stability of large scale liquid metal batteries
- Submitting institution
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University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 20194
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1017/jfm.2018.482
- Title of journal
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 453
- Volume
- 852
- Issue
- UNSPECIFIED
- ISSN
- 0022-1120
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Based on the principles governing the design of Hall-Heroult aluminium electrolysis cells, the MHD stability of giant Liquid Metal Batteries (LMBs) is analysed. The theoretical set-up presented, based on first principles and a rigorous regular perturbation approach, led to analytical and numerical solutions directly applicable to engineering designs. Battery stability is explained using weakly-nonlinear wave mechanisms in a coupled three shallow layer assembly of the galvanic cell reaching a size of several meters. This novel idea for renewables energy storage was the driver for an EU-wide FET collaboration involving subject leading partners from UK, Norway, Germany, France and Latvia.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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