Hydromagnetic Taylor–Couette flow: wavy modes

DOI10.1017/S0022112002002409MaRDI QIDQ4409263zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ashley P. Willis, C. F. Barenghi

Publication date 9 October 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207563

zbMATH Keywords

circular Couette flowaxial magnetic fieldcritical Reynolds numbersTaylor vortex flowmagnetic Taylor-Couette flowwavy modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07)

Abstract: We investigate magnetic Taylor--Couette flow in the presence of an imposed axial magnetic field. First we calculate nonlinear steady axisymmetric solutions and determine how their strength depends on the applied magnetic field. Then we perturb these solutions to find the critical Reynolds numbers for the appearance of wavy modes, and the related wavespeeds, at increasing magnetic field strength. We find that values of imposed magnetic field which alter only slightly the transition from circular--Couette flow to Taylor--vortex flow, can shift the transition from Taylor--vortex flow to wavy modes by a substantial amount. The results are compared against onset in the absence of a magnetic field.

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