Liquid metal batteries (LMBs) are discussed today as a cheap grid scale energy storage, as
required for the deployment of fluctuating renewable energies. Built as stable density …

We propose a new theoretical model for metal pad roll instability in idealized cylindrical
reduction cells. In addition to the usual destabilizing effects, we model viscous and Joule …

Recently, liquid metal batteries (LMBs) as a potentially cheap grid scale energy storage are
investigated popularly again. At present, the reason, why LMBs still cannot be promoted …

We present a novel experiment on interfacial wave dynamics in orbitally shaken cylindrical
vessels containing two and three fluid layers. The experiment was designed as a …

We introduce a time stepping technique using the momentum as dependent variable to
solve incompressible multiphase problems. The main advantage of this approach is that the …

We report the results of the experiments on the suppression of the MHD instability in a model
of the aluminum reduction cells (Pedchenko et al. in EPL 88: 24001, 2009). The idea behind …

A unified view on the interfacial instability in a model of aluminium reduction cells in the
presence of a uniform, vertical, background magnetic field is presented. The classification of …

An electrovortex flow of gallium alloy generated in a cylindrical cell by two electrodes
localized at the side walls is studied experimentally. It is shown that the electrovortex flow in …

When liquid metal batteries are charged or discharged, strong electrical currents are
passing through the three liquid layers that we find in their interior. This may result in the …

Combining theoretical arguments and numerical simulations, we demonstrate that the metal
pad roll instability can occur in a centimeter-scale setup with reasonable values of the …