Complex eigenvalue bounds in magnetoatmospheric shear flow. II
Abstract
A method discussed in Paper I (Cally, 1983) for determining complex eigenvalue bounds for second-order ordinary differential systems is applied to an isothermal, perfectly conducting, compressible, stratified medium permeated by a horizontal magnetic field and aligned shear flow. The magnetic field is chosen such that the Alfvén velocity is everywhere constant. For this particular system, the eigenvalue bounds obtained are generally tighter than those obtained in Paper I, and an additional feature is that the bound on the maximum growth rate peaks at a finite value of horizontal wavenumber k, not as k , as is found in Paper I.
- Publication:
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Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1080/03091928308209040
- Bibcode:
- 1983GApFD..23...57C
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Circulation;
- Complex Variables;
- Eigenvalues;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Flow;
- Shear Flow;
- Stratified Flow;
- Atmospheric Models;
- Compressible Flow;
- Conducting Fluids;
- Convective Flow;
- Flow Velocity;
- Isothermal Flow;
- Magnetic Fields