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粘弹性聚合物液体Couette-Taylor流中的磁旋转型不稳定性

Magnetorotational-type instability in Couette-Taylor flow of a viscoelastic polymer liquid

Gordon I. Ogilvie, Adrian T. Potter

摘要:

我们描述了粘弹性Couette-Taylor流的不稳定性,它直接类似于天体物理磁流体力学中的磁旋转不稳定性(MRI),聚合物分子起着磁场线的作用。通过确定的不稳定性和首选模式的属性的发病所需的条件,我们区分它从离心和弹性不稳定性研究以前。粘弹性不稳定性的实验演示和研究应该比液态金属中的MRI容易得多。类似的情况下,一个占主导地位的环形磁场,如预期在一个吸积盘,它可能会进入一个动荡的制度,其中许多模式是不稳定的。

英文摘要:

We describe an instability of viscoelastic Couette-Taylor flow that is directly analogous to the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics, with polymer molecules playing the role of magnetic field lines. By determining the conditions required for the onset of instability and the properties of the preferred modes, we distinguish it from the centrifugal and elastic instabilities studied previously. Experimental demonstration and investigation should be much easier for the viscoelastic instability than for the MRI in a liquid metal. The analogy holds with the case of a predominantly toroidal magnetic field such as is expected in an accretion disk and it may be possible to access a turbulent regime in which many modes are unstable.

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