Interchange Method in Compressible Magnetized Couette Flow: Magnetorotational and Magnetoconvective Instabilities

Dimitris M. Christodoulou, John Contopoulos, Demosthenes Kazanas

We obtain the general forms of the axisymmetric stability criteria in a magnetized compressible Couette flow using an energy variational principle, the so--called interchange or Ch…