Nonlinear saturation of the magnetorotational instability near threshold in a thin-gap Taylor-Couette setup

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Umurhan, O M ^a,b,c   Regev, O ^a,d   Menou, K ^d  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PRANDTL NUMBER; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); VISCOUS FLOW;

MAGNETOROTATIONAL INSTABILITY (MRI); NONLINEAR SATURATION; TAYLOR-COUETTE CONFIGURATION;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

EID: 34748897914     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.036310     Document Type: Article

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