Interfacial instability in electrified plane Couette flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 666, Issue , 2011, Pages 155-188

  Mählmann, Stefan ^a   Papageorgiou, Demetrios T ^a,b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

instability; interfacial flows (free surface); MHD and electrohydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDITY; NUMERICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY; PLASMA STABILITY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR FLOW; STABILITY; VISCOSITY;

FINGERING INSTABILITIES; FINITE VOLUME TECHNIQUE; INTERFACIAL FLOW (FREE SURFACE); INTERFACIAL INSTABILITY; LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; ONE-FLUID APPROXIMATION; PARALLEL-PLATE ELECTRODES; VERTICAL ELECTRIC FIELDS;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUETTE FLOW; ELECTRIC FIELD; FLOW STABILITY; INSTABILITY; INTERFACE; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PERMITTIVITY;

EID: 79951654716     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010004155     Document Type: Article

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