Influences of Hall effects on the flow characteristics and performance of the magnetohydrodyanmic (MHD) converging channel as an MHD generator are studied numerically in the present study. The numerical algorithm used is composed of an entropy conditioned scheme for solving the non-homogeneous Navier-Stokes equations, in conjunction with an SOR method for solving the elliptic equation governing the electrical potential of the electric field. It is found that Hall effects may lead to distortions in both the ...