The effect of a radial magnetic field on the stability of Couette flow
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The effect of a radial magnetic field on the stability of an electrically conducting incompressible fluid between two concentric rotating cylinders is considered. The eigenvalue problem for determining the critical Taylor number TC and the corresponding wave number aC is solved numerically for different values of ±μ(= Ω2/Ω1), (where Ω1, and Ω2 are me angular velocities of the inner and outer cylinders, respectively) and for different gap sizes. It is observed that the radial magnetic field stabilizes the flow. This effect is more pronounced for cylinders that are corotating as compared with counter-rotating cylinders or the situation where only the inner one is rotating.
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