Stability of a hard-core fluid jet of small electrical conductivity
- 1 September 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 14 (2) , 178-186
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112062001159
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.Keywords
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