The "Pamir" international conference on "Transfer Phenomena in MagnetoHydroDynamic & Electroconducting Flows" is one of the manifestations associated to "Hydromag". This international organisation aims to coordinate and promote the MHD research in the world. The organiser of this conference is the Pamir group from the French laboratory LEGI (Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels) which has close connections with INPG (lnstitut National Polythechnique de Grenoble), with the Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble and with the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). In September 26-30, 1997 this conference was organised for the third time at the Paul Langevin centre (Aussois, France) which belongs to the CNRS. Approximately 15 countries were represented by about 120 participants. Papers included in this volume are those presented at the third Pamir conference after selection by the scientific committee and referee's procedure. The formal presentations and invited lectures were focused on four main topics related to: Interfacial heat and mass transfer phenomena, Energetic applications, Dynamo effect, and MEHD Phenomena. One of the perspectives of the conference was to promote a productive interaction between the MHD and the chemical engineering research communities. The possibility to use an external magnetic field to improve and control the mass transfer processes in electrochemical systems, sometimes called magnetoelectrolysis, was introduced as a new topic of the Pamir conference and is considered as a relatively new and promising branch of MHD research. In particular a wide field of applications in various domains is expected.

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Special Contribution on Magnetic Fluids.- Thermal diffusion and particle separation in ferrocolloids.- I - MHD Flows and Turbulence.- Geodynamo and MHD.- Velocity profile optimization for the Riga dynamo experiment.- Magnetohydrodynamic flows around bodies in strong transverse magnetic fields.- On MHD turbulence models for simulation of magnetic brakes in continuous steel casting processes.- Absolute and convective MHD stability of a capillary liquid metal jet with azimuthal velocity.- Quasi-two-dimensional turbulence in MHD shear flows: the MATUR experiment and simulations.- Transport of momentum and heat in oscillatory MHD flow.- Roads to turbulence for an internal MHD buoyancy-driven flow due to a horizontal temperature gradient.- II - Electrochemical Problems with or without Magnetic Fields.- A model of the anode from the chlorate cell.- Sodium chlorate electrosynthesis cell under natural convection: simulation of the transient and steady state working behaviour.- MHD and micro-MHD effects in electrochemical systems.- Analysis of MHD effects on electrochemical processes: experimental and theoretical approach of the interfacial phenomena.- Enhancement of electrolytic mass transfer around cylinders by exposure to switching magnetic fields.- Laminar developing mass transfer in annulus with power law-fluids.- Study of near wall hydrodynamics and mass transfer under magnetic field influence.- Motions and mass transfer in a mercury coreless induction furnace.- Sea Water MHD: Electrolysis and gas production in flow.- III - MHD in Metallurgy and Crystal Growth.- Thermoelectric magnetohydrodynamic effects during Bridgman semiconductor crystal growth with a uniform axial magnetic field: large Hartmann-number asymptotic solution.- Experimental and numerical analysis of the influence of a rotating magnetic field on convection in Rayleigh-Bénard configurations.- Numerical solutions of moving boundary problem with thermal convection in the melt and magnetic field during directional solidification.- Effect of a steady magnetic field and imposed rotation of vessel on heat and mass transfer in swirling recirculating flows.- On the stability of rotating MHD flows.- Dynamics of an axisymmetric electromagnetic 'crucible' melting.- Measurement of solute diffusivity in electrically conducting liquids.- Magnetic control of convection in liquid metal heated from above.- IV - Energetic Applications.- Channel design influence on stability and working characteristics of induction MHD pump.- Contrast structures and rotating stall in MHD flows.- Nonequilibrium plasma MHD power generation with FUJI-1 blow-down facility.