| Abstract: | The analytic methods and results of investigating the acoustic instability of nonuniform steady channel flows are reviewed. The study is based on the system of equations describing the motion of an electrically conducting gas at low magnetic Reynolds numbers 25]. This makes it possible to consider the acoustic effects in plasma and nonconducting gas flows within the framework of a unified approach.Based on paper presented to the fluid mechanics sections of the Seventh Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Moscow, August 1991.Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No.5, pp. 31–46, September–October, 1992. |
