The Element-Free Galerkin Method for the Unsteady Magnetohydrodynamic Flow in a Duct

In this paper, a meshless global element-free Galerkin method is given to obtain the numerical solutions of the coupled equations in the velocity and magnetic field for the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic flow through a straight duct with arbitrary electrical conductivity, that is, from perfectly conducting to insulated duct walls. The moving least-square approximation scheme is employed to construct shape functions. A time stepping method is employed to deal with the time derivatives. Non-uniform background grids and nodes are applied for numerical simulations. Computations are performed for different Hartmann numbers and wall conductivities at different time.