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The instability of the plane interface between two uniform, superposed, and streaming fluids permeated with suspended particles through porous medium is considered. The effect of a uniform horizontal magnetic field on the problem is also studied. In the absence of surface tension, perturbations transverse to the direction of streaming are found to be unaffected by the presence of streaming if perturbations in the direction of streaming are ignored, whereas for perturbations in all other directions there exists instability for a certain wavenumber range. The instability of the system is postponed by the presence of magnetic field. The magnetic field and surface tension are able to suppress this Kelvin-Helmholtz instability for small wavelength perturbations and the medium porosity reduces the stability range given in terms of a difference in streaming velocities and the Alfvén velocity. The suspended particles do not affect the above results.
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Sharma, R.C., Sharma, N.D. The instability of streaming fluids with fine dust in porous medium. Czech J Phys 42, 907–918 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01605167
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