1966/07/01 by Arthur Kent · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
paper · doi:10.1063/1.1761842
A simple sufficient condition is given for instability against small oscillations of symmetric laminar flows of an inviscid incompressible perfectly conducting magnetofluid, flowing between parallel walls in the presence of a symmetric magnetic field parallel to the flow. The condition is interesting because it shows that any such flow that is stable in the absence of a magnetic field can be made unstable by the superposition of a suitable magnetic field parallel to the flow.