Stability and instability of hydromagnetic Taylor–Couette flows

• Published in: Physics reports Vol. 741; pp. 1 - 89
• Main Authors: Rüdiger, Günther, Gellert, Marcus, Hollerbach, Rainer, Schultz, Manfred, Stefani, Frank
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 26.04.2018
• Subjects: Fluid metals; Hydromagnetic instabilities; Laboratory experiments; Magnetorotational instability; Tayler instability; Taylor–Couette flows; Fluid metals; Hydromagnetic instabilities; Magnetorotational instability; Laboratory experiments; Tayler instability; Taylor–Couette flows

Decades ago S. Lundquist, S. Chandrasekhar, P. H. Roberts and R. J. Tayler first posed questions about the stability of Taylor–Couette flows of conducting material under the influence of large-scale magnetic fields. These and many new questions can now be answered numerically where the nonlinear sim...