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Nonlinear compressible magnetoconvection Part 2. Streaming instabilities in two dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

M. R. E. Proctor ,
N. O. Weiss ,
D. P. Brownjohn  and
N. E. Hurlburt
M. R. E. Proctor
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK
N. O. Weiss
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK
D. P. Brownjohn
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK
N. E. Hurlburt
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK Permanent address: Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
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Abstract

We have conducted further numerical experiments on two-dimensional fully compressible convection in an imposed vertical magnetic field and interpreted the results by reference to appropriate low-order models. Here we focus on streaming instabilities, involving horizontal shear flows, which form an important mechanism for the breakdown of steady convection in relatively weak fields for boxes of sufficiently small aspect ratio. While these shearing modes can arise even in the absence of a field, they will typically lead only to travelling and modulated waves unless there is a field to provide a restoring force. For magnetoconvection a new and dramatic form of pulsating wave appears after a complex sequence of secondary bifurcations.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 280 , 10 December 1994 , pp. 227 - 253
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© 1994 Cambridge University Press

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