Inflection point instability in Hartmann channel flow with variable electric conductivity
Roman Okatev, Oleg Zikanov, Dmitry Krasnov, Peter Frick
公開日: 2025/9/2
Abstract
The new type of instability of the flow of an electrically conducting fluid in a channel with imposed wall-normal magnetic field is studied using linear stability analysis and direct numerical simulations. The instability is triggered by the inflection points that develop in the base velocity profile when the electric conductivity of the fluid varies across the channel.