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Instabilities of a conducting fluid flow. I.

V. I. Aref'ev

Abstract
The instabilities of a plane-parallel flow of a conducting fluid in a MHD duct in crossed electric (E) and magnetic (M) fields are investigated in a two-component hydrodynamical context. Attention is directed to the singular role of kinetic excitation effects, which cause the instability criterion to have a lower value than in the single-fluid approximation. The kinetic instabilities are analyzed within the framework of the quasilinear theory describing a weakly turbulent flow. The turbulent flow profile is found with allowance for turbulent conduction and viscosity. The theoretical results exhibit qualitative agreement with the experimental laws discussed in the article.

Magnitnaya Gidrodinamika 10, No. 1, 55-63, 1974 [PDF] (in Russian)
Magnetohydrodynamics 10, No. 1, 41-47, 1974 [PDF, 0.37 Mb]

Copyright: Institute of Physics, University of Latvia
Electronic edition ISSN 1574-0579
Printed edition ISSN 0024-998X
DOI: http://doi.org/10.22364/mhd