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We have studied the stability of the flow of a conducting viscous fluid in a flat channel in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field. A new branch of instability has been found and a jumplike change in the critical Reynolds number has been observed.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Proskurin, A.M. Sagalakov, 2008, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2008, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 40–45.
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Proskurin, A.V., Sagalakov, A.M. A new branch of instability of the magnetohydrodynamic Poiseuille flow in a longitudinal magnetic field. Tech. Phys. Lett. 34, 199–201 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785008030073
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