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Magnetohydrodynamic instability of electrically conducting fluid between parallel plates

ZAKIR Hussain, LIU Chan, NI Ming-Jiu, ZHANG Nian-Mei   

  1. School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2012-06-11 Revised:2012-09-19 Online:2013-05-15

Abstract:

Instability of an electrically conducting fluid between two parallel plates, affected by an imposed transversal magnetic field, is numerically investigated by Chebyshev collocation method. The QZ method is utilized to obtain neutral curves of the linear instability. Details of instability are analyzed by solving the generalized Orr-Sommerfeld equation to determine the wavenumbers, growth rates, and spatial shapes of the eigenmodes.

Key words: linear instability, electrically conducting fluid, Chebyshev collocation method

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