Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability in hydromagnetics
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.- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0022377800019759
- Bibcode:
- 1976JPlPh..15..239K
- Keywords:
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- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Control;
- Taylor Instability;
- Controlled Fusion;
- Incompressible Fluids;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Potential Flow;
- Viscosity;
- Plasma Physics