Author:
Acheson D. J.,Gibbons M. P.
Abstract
We explore two types of instability which may develop when a highly conducting gas rotates rapidly in the presence of a radial gravitational force and an azimuthal magnetic field. Beyond a critical radius (equal to twice the isothermal scale height) a decrease of magnetic flux (per unit mass) outwards leads to the appearance of eastward-propagating waves by the mechanism of ‘magnetic buoyancy’. Within the critical radius an increase of magnetic flux outwards leads to westward-propagating waves by a totally different mechanism. Provided that the effects of Ohmic dissipation are not too large, either instability may set in for quite modest magnetic flux gradients, even when the magnetic energy of the system is very much smaller than the rotational energy.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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