Abstract
Stability to infinitesimal disturbances—when a parallel magnetic field is imposed—is investigated for the flow in the boundary layer set up by two-dimensional motion between parallel planes of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting fluid under the influence of a transverse magnetic field. The flow is assumed to take place at low magnetic Reynolds number. The usual asymptotic methods are employed for the solution, but, apart from the Tollmientype power series solution, an exact solution of the inviscid equation is obtained in terms of the hypergeometric function and its analytic continuation. Curves of neutral stability for two-dimensional disturbances are calculated and the results for critical Reynolds number modified to take into account three-dimensional disturbances. The parallel magnetic field is found to have a strong stabilizing influence.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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