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Instability of a streaming jet under the influence of vacuum magnetic fields

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The magnetohydrodynamic stability of a streaming liquid cylinder subject to surface tension and pervaded by a magnetic vacuum field has been elaborated for all axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric disturbances. The dispersion relation is obtained and studied analytically and numerically. the streaming has always a destabilizing effect. The axial magnetic fields inside and outside the jet have always stabilizing effects for all perturbations. The transverse magnetic field has a destabilizing effect. However, if the axial field intensity is so high and paramount over that the transverse field, the destabilizing character of the model is suppressed. The latter is satisfied if the Alfvén wave velocity is greater than the equilibrium liquid velocity.

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

    Ahmed E. Radwan

  2. Dept. of Mathematics, Women's University College, Ain Shams University, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt

    Samia S. Elazab

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Radwan, A.E., Elazab, S.S. Instability of a streaming jet under the influence of vacuum magnetic fields. Astrophys Space Sci 158, 281–295 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00639730

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