Stability of pure electron plasmas on magnetic surfaces
The electrostatic analog of magnetohydrodynamic stability for a pure electron plasma on magnetic surfaces is examined. Perturbations that conserve the number of particles and the entropy of the plasma...
The electrostatic analog of magnetohydrodynamic stability for a pure electron plasma on magnetic surfaces is examined. Perturbations that conserve the number of particles and the entropy of the plasma...
Observation of instability in presence of E×B flow in a direct current cylindrical magnetron discharge plasma
An electrostatic instability with an intermediate frequency range (50–100 MHz) between the electron collision frequency and electron cyclotron frequency has been observed in presence o...
An electrostatic instability with an intermediate frequency range (50–100 MHz) between the electron collision frequency and electron cyclotron frequency has been observed in presence o...
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A set of reduced equations governing nonlinear, two-dimensional, two-fluid, collisionless magnetic reconnection with arbitrary guide field is derived. These equations represent an improvement on the existing nonlinear reduced equations generally used to investigate collisionless reconnection, which are only valid in the large guide-field limit. The improved equations are used to calculate the linear growth rate of a strongly unstable, spontaneously reconnecting, plasma instability, as well as the general linear dispersion relation for such an instability.
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- Erratum: Collisionless magnetic reconnection with arbitrary guide-field [Phys. Plasmas 11, 4713 (2004)]
Richard Fitzpatrick et al.
Phys. Plasmas 14, 049902 (2007)
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- 52.35.Vd
Magnetic reconnection in plasmas - 52.55.Tn
Ideal and resistive plasma MHD modes; kinetic modes - 52.35.Py
Plasma macroinstabilities (hydromagnetic) e.g., kink, fire-hose, mirror, ballooning, tearing, trapped-particle, flute, Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, etc - 52.35.Mw
Nonlinear phenomena: plasma waves, wave propagation and other interactions including parametric effects, mode coupling, ponderomotive effects, etc - YEAR: 2004
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