DEFORMATION OF THE SURFACE OF A CONDUCTING
LIQUID UNDER THE ACTION OF A PULSE OF A STRONG FIELD

I. N. Aliev and A. R. Mil'vidskii

UDC 538.3.322

It has been shown that the development of the process 
of the so-called Frenkel-Tonks instability occurring in the case 
of application of an electric field to a plane surface of a conducting 
liquid is also determined by the size of the initial distortions of 
the surface.

N. E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 
Moscow, 105005, Russia; email: alievprof@mtu-net.ru. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 133-134, January-February, 
2004. Original article submitted June 23, 2003.