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Stability of a hard-core fluid jet of small electrical conductivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

S. P. Talwar  and
J. N. Tandon
S. P. Talwar
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Delhi, Delhi 6, India
J. N. Tandon
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Delhi, Delhi 6, India
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Abstract

The stability of a hard-core fluid jet is investigated under the assumption of small electrical conductivity of the fluid for parallel and antiparallel current systems. For axisymmetric deformations the parallel current has a destabilizing influence whereas the antiparallel current improves the stability of the configuration. However, for non-axisymmetric deformations characterized by m = 1, it is shown that the jet becomes unstable in general, both for parallel and antiparallel current systems. The presence of an external conductor has been shown to have a stabilizing influence on kink instability.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , October 1962 , pp. 178 - 186
Copyright
© 1962 Cambridge University Press

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