  The article reports the domineering governing role played by the direction of
electric and magnetic fields on the internal advection pattern and strength
within salt solution pendant droplets. Literature shows that solutal advection
drives circulation cells within salt based droplets. Flow visualization and
velocimetry reveals that the direction of the applied field governs the
enhancement/reduction in circulation velocity and the directionality of
circulation inside the droplet. Further, it is noted that while magnetic fields
augment the circulation velocity, the electric field leads to deterioration of
the same. The concepts of electro andmagnetohydrodynamics are appealed to and a
Stokesian stream function based mathematical model to deduce the field mediated
velocities has been proposed. The model is found to reveal the roles of and
degree of dependence on the governing Hartmann, Stuart, Reynolds and Masuda
numbers. The theoretical predictions are observed to be in good agreement with
experimental average spatio-temporal velocities. The present findings may have
strong implications in microscale electro and/or magnetohydrodynamics.
