Abstract

A circular jet of perfectly conductive inviscid liquid in a uniform longitudinal magnetic field can be absolutely or convectively unstable for different values of the flow parameters. Higher intensity of the field always reduces the domain of absolute instability. For both cases of absolute and convective instability, the corresponding jet of large but finite length is globally unstable if suitable boundary conditions hold at its beginning and end. The unstable global mode is based on a pair of waves that propagate in opposite directions and reflect from one into the other at the flow boundaries.

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