Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities
Abstract
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability theory determines whether a given PLASMA equilibrium configuration will either remain unchanged or evolve dynamically, in response to a general initial disturbance. If there is an initial disturbance whose amplitude subsequently grows in time, then the plasma is unstable, otherwise the plasma is stable. In addition, if the initial destabilizing disturbance has ...
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1888/0333750888/2222
- Bibcode:
- 2000eaa..bookE2222H
- Keywords:
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- Theoretical Concepts and Tools;
- Theoretical Concepts