Interface identification in magnetic fluid dynamics

Abstract

In magnetic fluid dynamics appears the problem of reconstruction of free boundary between conducting fluids, e.g. in aluminum electrolysis cells. We have investigated how the interface between two fluids of different conductivity of a highly simplified model of an aluminum electrolysis cell could be reconstructed by means of external magnetic field measurements using simple genetic algorithm.

Keywords

• genetic algorithms
• optimisation simulations
• inverse solution
• interface reconstruction