Applications and prospects of magnetohydrodynamics in aeronautical engineering

This article reviews the applications of magnetohydrodynamics in aeronautical engineering, including magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) combined ramjet, MHD combined turbine engine, post combustion chamber MHD power generation, surface MHD power generation, MHD acceleration wind tunnel, MHD thrust-vectoring, large-size MHD flow control, boundary layer separation flow control, boundary layer transition control, and air vehicle head heat flow control. In addition, this article discusses the key scientific and technical problems in MHD applications, and analyzes the conductive fluid generation, MHD experimental equipment and experimental technology, multi-field coupling mechanism and numerical simulation methods. At last, this article reviews and envision the applications of MHD in aeronautical engineering.