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The stability of an incompressible electrically conducting fluid rotating about an axis when current flows parallel to the axis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

D. H. Michael
D. H. Michael
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University College, London
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The problem of the stability of a fluid rotating about an axis to an axisymmetric disturbance has been examined in the inviscid case by Rayleigh [1], who derived a simple criterion based on an analogy with the stability of plane stratified fluid of variable density. Later a complete discussion of the stability of viscous motion between rotating cylinders for small axisymmetric disturbances was given by G. I. Taylor [2]. More recently, the problem of magneto-hydrodynamic stability has claimed the attention of several workers, and, amongst other problems, the stability of a rotating fluid, when a constant magnetic field is applied in the direction of the axis of rotation, has been examined by Chandrasekhar [3]

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Mathematika , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , June 1954 , pp. 45 - 50
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Copyright © University College London 1954

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