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Convective instability of an electric discharge

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The paper is devoted to the study of the convective instability of a plane layer of an electrically conducting medium when allowance is made for the nonuniformity of the Joule heat release.

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 120–123, March–April, 1983.

I thank A. G. Kulikovskii and A. A. Barmin for their interest in the work.

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Glinov, A.P. Convective instability of an electric discharge. Fluid Dyn 18, 266–269 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01091116

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