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Paradoxical transitions to instabilities in hydromagnetic Couette-Taylor flows

Fluid Dynamics 2011-12-15 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Mathematical Physics math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

By methods of modern spectral analysis, we rigorously find distributions of eigenvalues of linearized operators associated with an ideal hydromagnetic Couette-Taylor flow. Transition to instability in the limit of vanishing magnetic field has a discontinuous change compared to the Rayleigh stability criterion for hydrodynamical flows, which is known as the Velikhov-Chandrasekhar paradox.

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@article{arxiv.1109.0600,
  title  = {Paradoxical transitions to instabilities in hydromagnetic Couette-Taylor flows},
  author = {Oleg N. Kirillov and Dmitry E. Pelinovsky and Guido Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0600},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures