The investigations included in this research are as follows: Experiments on turbulent Hartmann flow in plasmas; Turbulence suppression in magnetohydrodynamic flows; Nonuniform electrical conduction in magnetohydrodynamic channels; Electrostatic probe theory and application in a high-temperature, collision-dominated, potassium-seeded argon plasma; Electron transport coefficients for two-temperature plasmas; Necessary conditions for the validity of the two-temperature plasma model; Experimental electrode current distributions in MHD channels; The influence of boundary layers on spectroscopic temperature measurements in MHD channels; Discharge characteristics in a seeded plasma flow. (Author).

An analysis is made of the boundary layer effect on the electrical characteristics of a Faraday MHD generator. An electrical substitution circuit and a method for calculating its elements are proposed. An analysis is made of the local circuit for the substitution of a channel in a gas-dynamic approximation. It is noted that the questions of the flow of current through a turbulent boundary layer require careful examination. It has been shown that the existing methods for the calculation of real resistance of a boundary layer, which are based on a break in integration on a certain arbitrary boundary from the electrode, give results which are strongly dependent on the selection of this boundary.

This symposium was concerned with advanced computational and design techniques in applied electromagnetic systems including devices and materials. The scope of the proceedings cover a wide variety of topics in applied electromagnetic fields: optimal design techniques and applications, inverse problems, advanced numerical techniques, mechanism and dynamics of new actuators, physics and applications of magnetic levitation, electromagnetic propulsion and superconductivity, modeling and applications of magnetic fluid, plasma and arc discharge, high-frequency field computations, electronic device simulations and magnetic materials.