Event Programme
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- Day 0 5 July 2026
- Day 1 6 July 2026
- Day 2 7 July 2026
- Day 3 8 July 2026
- Day 4 9 July 2026
- Summer School 10 July 2026
- Audi Max
The Welcome Reception of PAMIR 2026 will take place at the Mensa Montanuniversität Leoben.
Within the PAMIR framework, the Welcome Reception is designed as an informal networking moment, where participants can meet, reconnect, and engage in conversations at the intersection of magnetohydrodynamics, research, industry, and society.
- Audi Max
- Raiffeisen
- Kupelwieser
Invited Talk (35+5 min)
- 09:00–09:40 — Electromagnetically driven swirling flows in cylindrical cavities — Sergio CUEVAS
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 09:40–10:00 — Experimental Study of Planar Sheared Liquid Metal Flow in a Rectangular Duct under Spanwise Magnetic Field — Yurii KOLESNIKOV
- 10:00–10:20 — Heat transfer in a MHD toroidal duct – SOLANO-OLIVARES Veronica
- 10:20–10:40 — Damping and Interfacial Coupling Mechanisms in Liquid Metal Interfacial Waves – Yang Juan-Cheng
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 11:10–11:30 — Natural convection of a liquid metal under an imposed electric current – TORRES-SAUCEDO Oscar
- 11:30–11:50 — 3D numerical investigation of MHD formulations on the melting process of a liquid metal – TORRES-SAUCEDO Oscar
- 11:50–12:10 — Dynamics of Viscous Droplets with MHD Effects in Zero-Gravity Conditions – GARZON Fernando
- 12:10–12:30 — Shape & Collective Dynamics in Geometrically Confined MHD Bubble Flow — Ansis ZIVERS
Invited Talk (35+5 min)
- 14:00–14:40 — Rotating MHD flow in layers parallel to a magnetic field — Chiara MISTRANGELO (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 14:40–15:00 — Experimental Study of the Anisotropic Decay of Homogeneous Isotropic Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence – CHUNXU Ke
- 15:00–15:20 — Analytical solution for an electrically driven rotating MHD flow — Leo BÜHLER
- 15:20–15:40 — Magnetic Damping of Interfacial Waves in Rectangular Containers — Gerrit HORSTMANN
- 15:40–16:00 — Role of Electrode Geometry in Self-Induced Magnetohydrodynamic Vortex Flows — Ali FAKHREDDINE
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 16:30–16:50 — Dynamo Action in Strongly Magnetized Astrophysical Disks – KOBAIDZE Daviti
- 16:50–17:10 — Strong and Weak Dynamo States in Taylor-Couette Flows – MAMATSASHVILI George
- 17:10–17:30 — Multistability and Pattern Formation in Liquid Metal Magnetoconvection – NAWAZ Asif
- 17:30–17:50 — Hybrid MW-SDBD Plasma MHD Generator for Enhanced Power Extraction Efficiency – YANG Jong-Keun
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 16:30–16:50 — Computational Analysis of Mold Electromagnetic Control Strategies in Thin Slab Continuous Casting – AYOUB Yahea
- 16:50–17:10 — Thermoelectric Magnetohydrodynamics Across Scales – KAO Andrew
- 17:10–17:30 — Scaling Contactless Ultrasonic Treatment to Industrial Processes – TONRY Catherine
- 17:30–17:50 — First-Principles Argon-Argon Scattering Cross Section Calculations – KHAN Mohammad
- Audi Max
- Raiffeisen
- Kupelwieser
Invited Talk (35+5 min)
- 09:00–09:40 — The synchronized solar dynamo — Frank STEFANI
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 09:40–10:00 — The DRESDYN Precession Experiment: Results of Preparatory Water Runs and Prospects for Dynamo Action – KRAUTER Nico
- 10:00–10:20 — Inertial Wave Driven Dynamo in Vortex Free Precessional Flows – MISHRA Ashish
- 10:20–10:40 — Neural Differential Equations for Inferring Nonlinear Dynamo Models – STEPANOV Rodion
Invited Talk (35+5 min)
- 14:00–14:40 — Electric Fields as a Pathway to Enhanced Heat and Mass Transfer, from Micro- to Centimetre Scales — Laurent DAVOUST
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 14:40–15:00 — A comparison of various numerical models of different levels of complexity for a large annular linear induction pump – PAUMEL Kevin
- 15:00–15:20 — Impact of Inclined Magnetic field on MHD flows in Complex geometries – VIPAT Arpita
- 15:20–15:40 — Quasi-2D Structures in Magnetoconvection in Duct Flows – KRASNOV Dmitry
- 15:40–16:00 — Model experiment for assessment of thermoelectric MHD effects in liquid metal capillary porous systems – KALDRE Imants
- 16:00–16:20 — Nonlinear response analysis of surface waves under transverse magnetic field – Linling Li
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 11:10–11:30 — Cessation-like events in turbulent liquid metal convection – SIEGER Max
- 11:30–11:50 — Structure and Dynamics of Different Nonlinear States in Hall-MHD Shear Flows — BURDILADZE Luka
- 11:50–12:10 — Analytical Solution to the Problem on MHD Flow in a Non-Conducting Rectangular Duct with Slip Conditions on the Side Walls – LIGERE Elena
- 12:10–12:30 — Impact of Solutal Convection on Electrically Driven Flows of Electrolytes in an Annular Duct – EMERIT Tom
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 16:50–17:10 — Temperature Measurement and Mapping in Electrofluidic Microsystems: A Non-Invasive Fluorescence-Based Approach – DAVOUST Laurent
- 17:10–17:30 — Wetting of ferrofluid droplets in non uniform magnetic conditions – MORENO Lisandro
- 17:30–17:50 — DC Plasma–Chemical Enhancement of Methane Combustion in a GTE Chamber – CHEPURNYI Andrii
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 11:10–11:30 — Numerical Modeling of an Arc-Heated High Pressure Gas Chamber – YALMAN Rasim
- 11:30–11:50 — Investigating Kink Mode Transitions in Thermal Plasmas: Threshold Analysis Using MHD Simulations for Air and Hydrogen – Al-Nasser Mohamad
- 11:50–12:10 — Effect of Metal Species Concentration in the Near Cathode Region of Atmospheric-pressure Plasma Arc – SIDDIQUI Yasir Hussain
- 12:10–12:30 — Modelling of Multicomponent Liquid Evaporation relevant to Plasma–Liquid Interactions – KANSAL Saloni
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 14:40–15:00 — A Model Experiment of Magnetohydrodynamics in an Additive Manufacturing Melt Pool – FELCIS Valdemars
- 15:00–15:20 — Induction cold crucible furnace for nanoparticle mixing in Nb-MASC alloys – GENCOGLU Ege
- 15:20–15:40 — In situ Observation of Ga-In Alloy Solidification under Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields – KAO Andrew
- 15:40–16:00 — Magnetic Field Impact on Laser Weld Bead Morphology of Sn-10%wt. Pb Alloy – KLEINHOFS Aleksandrs
- 16:00–16:20 — Comparative gas bubble measurements in liquid sodium – VADDE Anusha
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 16:50–17:10 — Comparative Dynamics of MHD Flows in Low-Density Air and Argon Plasmas at a Stagnation-Point Disk – COMITO Matteo
- 17:10–17:30 — Characterization of an electromagnetic flowmeter (EMF) applied to liquid metal – VIMBERT Etienne
- 17:30–17:50 — The French High Magnetic Field Laboratory – DEBRAY Francois
- Audi Max
- Raiffeisen
- Kupelwieser
- Social events
Invited Talk (35+5 min)
- 08:30–09:10 — Alkali-seeded hypersonic flows for magnetohydrodynamic actuators — Benjamin KHIAR (FR)
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 09:10–09:30 — Simultaneous 2D phase & velocity field measurements for Hele-Shaw bubble flow in liquid metal – PIRS Maksimilians
- 09:30–09:50 — 2WCF-SVD: 2-way consistent Farneback with SVD-based artifact filtering for multiphase optical flow velocimetry – JAKOVICS Andris
- 09:50–10:10 — A simplex based conservative discretization of the Lorentz force for liquid metal flows – ALLIET Robbe
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 10:40–11:00 — Liquid Metal-Polymer Hydrogels for Deformable Energy Harvesting: From Compression Sensing to Radial MHD Flow Modeling – AVALOS Raul
- 11:00–11:20 — A Liquid-Metal Reciprocating MHD Generator Fired by Vibration Power – MONTISCI Augusto
- 11:20–11:40 — Causational Energy Aggregation in Generalized MHD Using a GIRAG-Based Plasma Induction Architecture – RL Harish
- 11:40–12:00 — Open Cycle MHD Power Generation with Turquoise Hydrogen – CHOI YongSup
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 10:40–11:00 — Effects of Locally Conducting Walls on Global Transports in Liquid Metal Thermal Convection under Horizontal Magnetic Fields – Ming-Zhu Ai
- 11:00–11:20 — Design Analysis of a Magnetohydrodynamic Circulator for a Liquid Metal Cooled Micro-Nuclear Reactor – KIM HeeReyoung
- 11:20–11:40 — 3D magneto-convective flow with volumetric heating in one breeding unit of a water-cooled test blanket module for ITER – Lyu Biao
- 11:40–12:00 — DNS of Turbulent Pipe Flow at High Reynolds Number in a Transverse Magnetic Field – SATAKE Shin-ichi
Location: Erzberg, Styria
Included: Yes (Participation cannot be guaranteed for registrations completed after May 31, 2026.)
Notes: Personal protective equipment will be provided; wear sturdy footwear; mine temperature 6–8°C.
Location: Gösser Bräu, Turmgasse 3, 8700 Leoben
A typical Austrian dinner in a friendly and informal atmosphere.
Included in registration (Participation cannot be guaranteed for registrations completed after May 31, 2026.).
- Audi Max
- Raiffeisen
- Kupelwieser
Invited Talk (35+5 min)
- 09:00–09:40 — Stability of liquid metal drops in an AC magnetic field — Valters DZELME (LV)
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 09:40–10:00 — An Entropically Damped Artificial Compressibility (EDAC) method for MHD flows with induction effects – GANESAN Esmitha
- 10:00–10:20 — Contactless detection and characterization of gas bubbles in liquid metals – SIEGER Max
- 10:20–10:40 — Modelling of Electromagnetic Implosion of a Lithium Liner in LM26 (Magnetized Target Fusion Machine) at General Fusion– SUPONITSKY Victoria
Invited Talk (35+5 min)
- 14:00–14:40 — Liquid-Metal-Enhanced Four-Point Technique for Ultra-Low Resistance Characterization in a Vortex MHD Energy Harvester — Raul AVALOS
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 14:40–15:00 — Ultra-fast synchrotron X-ray imaging of melt pool structure evolution of Hastelloy X during L-PBF under static magnetic field – SHUAI Sansan
- 15:00–15:20 — Influence of Aspect Ratio, Furnace Size and Magnetic Field on Degassing Effectiveness in an Induction Furnace – PETRYKOWSKI John
- 15:20–15:40 — Influence of Static Magnetic Fields on the Corrosion and Passivation Behavior of High-Purity Copper in Mildly Acidic Media – SALHI Meroua
- 15:40–16:00 — Microstructural and wettability control of Cu–Ag alloys electrodeposited on titanium under high magnetic fields – DALTIN Anne-Lise
Talks (15+5 min each)
- 11:00–11:20 — Numerical Simulation of Electrochemical Extraction of Iron through Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) – PHILIPP Lisa
- 11:20–11:40 — Liquid Metal Bath Mixing and Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Hydrogen Plasma Smelting Reduction – KAHRIMANOVIC Damir
- 11:40–12:00 — Effects of a Swirl Flow inside a Submerged Entry Nozzle on the Slag Band Dynamics inside a Continuous Casting Mold under DC Magnetic Field – VAKHRUSHEV Alexander
- 12:00–12:20 — Solidification and Magnetism of Liquid Co Alloys in High Magnetic Field – BEAUGNON Eric
- 12:20–12:40 — Capturing Melt Pool Flow and Particle Behaviour During Additive Manufacturing in Transient External Magnetic Field – KRASTINS Ivars
- 11:00–11:20 — Thermal characteristics due to a fringing magnetic field in turbulent pipe flow – SHIRSAT Akshay
- 11:20–11:40 — Fragmentation in liquid metal free surface flows under MHD effects and vacuum conditions – PUENTE Ricardo
- 11:40–12:00 — Comparative Assessment of Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling Approaches for Liquid Metal Applications in Fusion Energy Systems – KHODAK Andrei
- 12:00–12:20 — A 700°C tin loop to demonstrate electromagnetically shaped flowing free-surface plasma facing walls – BARANOVSKIS Reinis
- 12:20–12:40 — Investigation of the feasibility of Annular Linear Induction Pump for Molten Salt applications – CHELIHI Brahim
- Audi Max
- Raiffeisen
- Kupelwieser
Electrically induced or electrovortical flows occur in electrically conducting liquids when electric currents interact with their own induced or externally applied magnetic fields. The resulting Lorentz force is generally non-conservative, which can generate spontaneous vortical motion even in the absence of mechanical stirring. These flows strongly depend on current path geometry, electrode configuration, and boundary conditions. They play a key role in momentum and heat transport in liquid metal systems. Relevant applications include metallurgical processes, liquid metal batteries, plasma, and electrochemical cells, where flow control is essential for stability and efficiency.
Atmospheric electric arcs are high-intensity plasma discharges sustained in gas at near-atmospheric pressure. They involve strong coupling between ionization, heat transfer, radiation, and fluid dynamics. Arc behavior is dominated by instabilities such as arc root motion, constriction, and reattachment phenomena. The lecture discusses arc column structure, energy balance, and electrode interaction processes. Applications include welding, circuit breakers, and plasma torches, with emphasis on stability and control strategies.
ESR and VAR are secondary refining processes used for producing high-quality steels and superalloys. In ESR, electrical current flows through molten slag, generating Joule heating that melts a consumable electrode drop by drop. VAR operates under vacuum conditions, where a high-current arc ensures controlled melting and degassing. Both processes improve chemical purity, reduce inclusions, and refine solidification microstructure. The lecture highlights coupled multiphysics modeling: electromagnetism, heat transfer, phase change, and fluid flow in molten pools.
Electromagnetic braking (EMBr) is used in continuous casting to control molten steel flow inside the mold region. A static or traveling magnetic field induces Lorentz forces that oppose jet momentum and damp turbulence. This helps stabilize the steel–slag interface and reduces slag entrainment. EMBr also improves inclusion removal and solidification conditions near the mold walls. The lecture covers field configurations, interaction with jet dynamics, and optimization for industrial casting quality.
