Magneto-viscoelastic interaction on radial motion of a solid cylinder (Q2276835)

The present paper is an attempt to investigate the radial motion of an infinitely long conducting solid cylindrical body, assumed to be homogeneous, isotropic and viscoelastic in presence of a magnetic field in the axial direction. The fundamental equations of motion in magneto- viscoelasticity are derived. The radial motion of a viscoelastic cylinder of Voigt type due to a magnetic field in the axial direction has been studied using the fundamental equations which are nonlinear in character. Without assuming any approximation for linearization and applying the method of solution adoped by \textit{Yu. P. Ladikov} [Soviet Phys., Doklady 6, 198-201 (1961; Zbl 0116.430)] for the problems of unsteady spherically symmetric pulsations of a gravitating gas sphere in a magnetic field, the solution of the present problem is derived. The method of solution is however, `inverse', that is, we investigated the conditions under which the radial motion is possible. The stress components have been computed numerically within the cylindrical body when the applied magnetic field varies with time. it is found that the values of stress components decrease with increase of time.