From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!leichter
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Re: Truly three dimensional instability
Article-I.D.: yale-com.620
Posted: Sat Jan  8 10:39:15 1983
Received: Sun Jan  9 02:22:01 1983
References: hplabsb.1268

I don't know of one off-hand, but a reasonable place to look is in magnetic
fluids.  The theory of "magneto-hydrodynamics" got written up in Scientific
American about 6 months ago.  The reason I suggest it is that the equations
of motion for such a fluid are the Bernoulli equations with additional terms
for the magnetic interaction.  If convection produces a two-dimensional system,
it might be possible to cook up a three-dimensional one by making the fluid
magnetic and adding a magnetic field.  (Sounds like it would be somewhat arti-
ficial; but I think that may be because all of our "non-artificial" examples
are physical systems which we can solve - and we produce them by simplification
of real systems.)
							-- Jerry
						decvax!yale-comix!leichter