Linear stability of Hunt's flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112009993259zbMATH Open1189.76243arXiv0902.2319MaRDI QIDQ3573263FDOQ3573263

Sergei Molokov, Svetlana Aleksandrova, Jānis Priede

Publication date: 30 June 2010

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyse numerically the linear stability of the fully developed flow of a liquid metal in a rectangular duct subject to a transverse magnetic field. The walls of the duct perpendicular to the magnetic field are perfectly conducting whereas the parallel ones are insulating. In a sufficiently strong magnetic field, the flow consists of two jets at the insulating walls and a near-stagnant core. We use a vector stream function formulation and Chebyshev collocation method to solve the eigenvalue problem for small-amplitude perturbations. Due to the two-fold reflection symmetry of the base flow the disturbances with four different parity combinations over the duct cross-section decouple from each other. Magnetic field renders the flow in a square duct linearly unstable at the Hartmann number Ha 5.7 with respect to a disturbance whose vorticity component along the magnetic field is even across the field and odd along it. For this mode, the minimum of the critical Reynolds number Re_c 2018, based on the maximal velocity, is attained at Ha ~ 10. Further increase of the magnetic field stabilises this mode with Re_c growing approximately as Ha. For Ha>40, the spanwise parity of the most dangerous disturbance reverses across the magnetic field. At Ha ~ 46 a new pair of most dangerous disturbances appears with the parity along the magnetic field being opposite to that of the previous two modes. The critical Reynolds number, which is very close for both of these modes, attains a minimum Re_c ~ 1130 at Ha ~ 70 and increases as Re_c ~ Ha^1/2 for Ha >> 1. The asymptotics of the critical wavenumber is k_c ~ 0.525Ha^1/2 while the critical phase velocity approaches 0.475 of the maximum jet velocity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2319

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25)

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