Viscous Effects on the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability.
Abstract
The gravitational instabilities of a system consisting of two homogeneous fluids in a concentric cylindrical configuration (theta-pinch), in the presence of a uniform axial magnetic field, are investigated. The fluids are assumed to be incompressible, and viscous, with infinite conductivity. The dispersion relation is developed by two methods. In the first, an exact determination is made based upon the time development of an infinitesimal disturbance of the equilibrium conditions. In the second, it is shown that it is possible to use a variational calculation regardless of whether the system is self-adjoint. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0720995
Entities
People
- Leonard M. Compton
Organizations
- United States Army Communications-Electronics Command