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Nonlinear Rayleigh–Taylor instability in hydromagnetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

G. L. Kalra  and
S. N. Kathuria
G. L. Kalra
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007
S. N. Kathuria
Affiliation:
India Meteorological Department, Lodi Road, New Delhi 3
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Abstract

Nonlinear theory of Rayleigh—Taylor instability in plasma supported by a vacuum magnetic field shows that the growth rate of the mode, unstable in the linear theory, increases if the wavelength of perturbation π lies between

and 2πcrit. This might have an important bearing on the proposed thermonuclear MHD power generation experiments.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1976 , pp. 239 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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