SIMULATING MHD INSTABILITY IN THE FREE SURFACE OF A TRAPPED DROP OF MAGNETIC LIQUID.

Numerical experiments have been performed earlier on MHD instability in a drop of magnetic liquid (ML) having two symmetry planes, where it was also stated that to consider more general situations would require altering the algorithm for calculating the magnetic contribution to the pressure in D'Arcy's equation describing the ML motion in a thin slot. Here author gives an algorithm for calculating the magnetic forces in simulating the development of configurations in an ML drop, and describes numerical results obtained in this way.