Dynamical and secular instability of a self-gravitating rotating cylinder in a toroidal magnetic field

DOI10.1007/BF00641913MaRDI QIDQ1115705zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. J. Luyten

Publication date 1988

Published in Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00641913

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous self-gravitating rotating cylindermagnetic instabilityoscillationsrotational instabilitysecular instabilitystabilitytoroidal magnetic field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

Review text

The oscillations and stability of a homogeneous self-gravitating rotating cylinder in a toroidal magnetic field are investigated. It is assumed that the field is proportional to the distance to the axis of the cylinder. We show the existence of four infinite discreta spectra of magnetic (or rotational) modes. Rotation stabilizes the magnetic \(m=1\) instability. The magnetic field decreases the growth rate of rotational instability and reduces the interval of unstable wavenumers. If \(m=1\), instability always occurs with the exception of the equipartition state. If \(m>1\), the instability can be suppressed by a sufficiently large magnetic field. Resistivity decreases the growth rate of magnetic instability, but increases the growth rate of rotational instability. For zero wavenumber perturbations secular instability occurs due to the action of resistivity before a neutral point is attained where a second secular instability initiates due to the action of resistivity.

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