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Convective stability of a rotating conducting fluid layer in an external magnetic field

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The stability of the rest state of a conducting incompressible fluid forming a horizontal layer with rigid dielectric boundaries heated from below and rotating about a vertical axis, with a vertical magnetic field superimposed, is studied in the Boussinesq approximation. With increase in the Rayleigh number, depending on the relationship between the problem parameters (Taylor, Chandrasekhar and kinematic and magnetic Prandtl numbers), the eigenvalue of the critical mode of the linearization operator may be zero or imaginary, so that the instability of the rest state may be monotonic or oscillatory. The effect of the parameter values on the instability mode is investigated. In particular, the parameter ranges on which the critical eigenvalue is zero or imaginary are found.

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  1. O. M. Podvigina
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Original Russian Text © O.M. Podvigina, 2009, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2009, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 29–39.

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Podvigina, O.M. Convective stability of a rotating conducting fluid layer in an external magnetic field. Fluid Dyn 44, 502–510 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462809040036

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