Flute vortices in nonuniform magnetic fields
- 1 September 1985
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 28 (9) , 2925-2927
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865215
Abstract
Localized double vortices associated with the flute modes are shown to exist. Special emphasis is given to the effect of the convective variation of the fluid magnetic moment. It is shown that the latter effect considerably modifies the existence regions of the vortices.Keywords
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