Water Heating Rate as a Function of Magnetic Field and Electrical Induction Using Solar Energy

The effect of magnetic fields on the water remains a highly controversial topic despite much research focused on this topic in the past decades.However, the improvement of water heating in a magnetic field is less controversial.The mechanism underlying this phenomenon was studied in prior works.In this paper, use solar electric induction to study the heating of water in magnetic fields; one distinction between induction heating and magnetic field heating is that the convection in the water heater is varied due to the different heating locations.Using computational fluid dynamics, it was possible to examine the heat load in the heater during induction heating and magnetic field heating, determine its temperature distribution, and flow rate.The heat flow in magnetic field heating was measured over the heater base at the bottom.In induction heating, the analysis was conducted using the distribution of heat production as determined by electromagnetic field analysis.Simulation shows differences in convective flow in the heater during induction heating and magnetic field heating, particularly in the early stages of heating.