Kent, Arthur
(1966)
Stability of laminar flows of a perfect magnetofluid.
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
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Abstract
This thesis reviews work done on stability of laminar flows of non-conducting; fluids and makes extensions where possible to perfectly conducting fluids in the presence of a magnetic field parallel to the flow. Dissipative effects are not studied, so that the fluids have no viscosity or electrical resistance. The fluids are incompressible. The object is to classify the velocity and magnetic profiles of the laminar flows into stable and unstable groups. In spite of the simplicity of the systems studied, simple rules are difficult to find. Those available are summarised in the appendix. The remaining results have the disadvantage that they involve the frequencies and amplitudes of the possible disturbances.
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