On the Rayleigh—Taylor instability in hydromagnetics with finite electrical resistivity and Hall current

Surindar Singh; J. N. Tandon

doi:10.1017/S0022377800004670

Abstract

The effect of Hall current and finite electrical resistivity has been studied on the Rayleigh—Taylor instability of superposed incompressible fluids in the presence of a uniform horizontal magnetic field. It is found that Hall current has a negligible stabilizing influence in the high resistivity limit whereas it has a destabilizing influence in the low resistivity limit.

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