Laplace Transform Solution of Hydromagnetic Steady Flow of Viscous Incompressible Fluid Between Two Infinite Parallel Plates.

Abstract

Hydromagnetics involves the effect of externally impressed magnetic field on the onset of thermal instability in electrically conducting fluids. In broad terms, the subject of hydromagnetics is concerned with the ways in which magnetic fields can affect fluid behavior. These fluids include liquid metals and highly ionized gas-like substances called plasmas. When we consider a fluid which has the property of electrical conduction; and suppose also that magnetic fields are prevalent. The electrical conductivity of the fluid and the prevalence of magnetic fields contribute to effects of two kind: first, by motion of the electrically conducting fluid across the magnetic lines of force, electric currents are generated and the associated magnetic fields contribute to changes in the existing fields; and second, the fact that the fluid elements carrying currents transverse magnetic lines of force contributes to additional forces acting on the fluid elements. It is in this two fold interaction between the motions and the fields that is responsible for patterns of behavior which are often unexpected and striking.

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Hydromagnetics, magnetic field, fluid, conduction, electric currents

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