GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY OF A VISCOUS FLUID IN A MAGNETIC FIELD,
Abstract
The instability of a viscous fluid between two infinite vertical plates and heated from below in the presence of a magnetic field perpendicular to the plates is investigated, and the most critical stability boundary in the space of the Rayleigh number R, Hartmann number M, and the horizontal wave number a is determined. It is found that the most unstable mode is a symmetric mode with zero wave-number, and that for any M the fluid is unstable for any non-zero R, however small. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 16, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0622120
Entities
People
- Chia-shun Yih
Organizations
- University of Michigan