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Nonaxisymmetric magnetogravitational instability of a streaming fluid cylinder ambient with a tenuous medium pervaded by transverse varying fields

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The stability of a self-gravitating streaming fluid cylinder acting upon the electromagnetic force ambient with a tenuous medium of negligible inertia but pervaded by a transverse varying fields, has been developed. The stability criterion is derived, discussed analytically and the results are verified numerically. The cylinder is purely self-gravitating unstable in small axisymmetric domain and stable in all the rest states. modes while the transverse field exterior the cylinder is stabilizing or destabilizing according to restrictions in the asymmetric modes and purely destabilizing in the symmetric one. The streaming has a strong destabilizing influence and that influence is independent of the kind of the perturbation and wavelengths. Both the streaming and the electromagnetic influences increase the gravitational axisymmetric unstable domain and shrink those of stability in the axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric perturbations. Moreover, the stabilizing character of the Lorentz force of some states, is physicaly interpreted, will not be able to suppress the gravitational instability because the gravitational instability of sufficiently long waves will persist.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Ain-Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt

    Ahmed E. Radwan

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Radwan, A.E. Nonaxisymmetric magnetogravitational instability of a streaming fluid cylinder ambient with a tenuous medium pervaded by transverse varying fields. Astrophys Space Sci 187, 241–260 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00643393

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