Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Table of Contents - 1966 - Volume 62, Issue 02  

Research Article

Overstability in the magnetohydrodynamic Bénard problem at large Hartmann numbers

R. D. Gibsona1

a1 University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Abstract

The possibility of instability arising as overstability in the magnetohydrodynamic Bénard problem is discussed. Results are derived for large Hartmann numbers when the regions outside the fluid layer are conducting or insulating, the interfaces being rigid or free.

(Received April 30 1965)