Hydromagnetic Instability in plane Couette Flow
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We study the stability of a compressible magnetic plane Couette flow and show that compressibility profoundly alters the stability properties if the magnetic field has a component perpendicular to the direction of flow. The necessary condition of a newly found instability can be satisfied in a wide variety of flows in laboratory and astrophysical conditions. The instability can operate even in a very strong magnetic field which entirely suppresses other MHD instabilities. The growth time of this instability can be rather short and reach shear timescales.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0706.2690,
title = {Hydromagnetic Instability in plane Couette Flow},
author = {Alfio Bonanno and Vadim Urpin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2690},
year = {2008}
}