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The stability of a current-carrying rectangular liquid metal conductor with respect to small longitudinal surface perturbations was theoretically studied. It is shown that the instability increment tends to zero in both short-and longwave limits and, hence, passes through a maximum at a finite wavenumber. The characteristic times of instability development are estimated.
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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 27, No. 22, 2001, pp. 38–44.
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Volkov, N.B., Zubarev, N.M. & Zubareva, O.V. Large-scale magnetohydrodynamic instability of a conducting liquid surface. Tech. Phys. Lett. 27, 949–951 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1424403
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