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Eddy current flow meters (ECFM) are widely used for measuring the flow velocity of electrically conducting fluids. Since the flow induced perturbations of a magnetic field depend both on the geometry and the conductivity of the fluid,…
We present a concept and test results of an eddy-current flowmeter for liquid metals. The flow rate is determined by applying a weak ac magnetic field to a liquid metal flow and measuring the flow-induced phase disturbance in the external…
Measuring local velocities or entire flow rates in liquid metals or semiconductor melts is a notorious problem in many industrial applications, including metal casting and silicon crystal growth. We present a new variant of an old technique…
Harmonic and transient eddy currents in a liquid metal positioned above an excitation coil are determined by measuring the voltage drop in a simple potential probe. The resulting spatio-temporal eddy current field is compared with the…
We present a concept of an electromagnetic phase-shift flowmeter that has a significantly reduced sensitivity to the variation of the electrical conductivity of a liquid metal. A simple theoretical model of the flowmeter is considered where…
We present a theory of single-magnet flowmeter for liquid metals and compare it with experimental results. The flowmeter consists of a freely rotating permanent magnet, which is magnetized perpendicularly to the axle it is mounted on. When…
Being able to characterise objects at low frequencies, but above the limiting frequency of the eddy current approximation of the Maxwell system, is important for improving current metal detection technologies. Importantly, the upper…
We discuss the well-posedness of the 'transient eddy current' magneto-quasistatic approximation of Maxwell's initial value problem with bounded and measurable conductivity, with sources, on a domain. We prove existence and uniqueness of…
Computing the electric eddy currents in non-linear materials, such as superconductors, is \E{not straightforward}. The design of superconducting magnets and power applications needs electromagnetic computer modeling, being in many cases a…
Eddy currents induced in electrically conductive objects can be used to locate metallic objects as well as to assess the properties of materials non-destructively without physical contact. This technique is useful for material…
We have developed and characterized two novel micro flow sensors based on measuring the electrical impedance of the interface between the flowing liquid and metallic electrodes embedded on the channel walls. These flow sensors are very…
Flux loops have been installed on selected segments of the magnetic flux return yoke of the 4 T superconducting coil of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector under construction at CERN. Voltages induced in the loops during discharge of…
We use a radio-frequency $^{85}$Rb alkali-vapor cell magnetometer based on a paraffin-coated cell with long spin-coherence time and a small, low-inductance driving coil to create highly resolved conductivity maps of different objects. We…
A novel methodology, named the diffusion profile method, is proposed in this research to measure the electric field of a low gain avalanche detector (LGAD).The proposed methodology utilizes the maximum of the time derivative of the edge…
This paper is concerned with Eddy-Current (EC) nondestructive testing of conductive materials and focuses, in particular, on extending the well-known LinearSampling Method (LSM) to the case of EC equations. We first present the theoretical…
We present a microscopic derivation of the effect of current flow on a system near a superconductor-metal quantum critical point. The model studied is a 2d itinerant electron system where the electrons interact via an attractive interaction…
The transient response from a transmitter-receiver coil system inside a multi-layer cylindrical conductive configuration is obtained. The particular set-up applies to well logging as well as to eddy current tube testing. In this work, a…
In conducting ferromagnetic materials, a moving domain wall induces eddy currents in the sample which give rise to an effective retarding pressure on the domain wall. We show here that the pressure is not just proportional to the…
An analytical method of calculating eddy current in a metallic spinning gyroscope in external magnetic field is presented. With reasonable assumptions, the problem is simplified from the time-dependent one governed by Maxwell equations to…
The Moody diagram, a plot of friction factor versus flow rate, is a well-known engineering tool for estimating head loss in pipe flows. It comprises well-defined relationships between friction factor and flow rate over the majority of…