On the shear induced growth and damping of waves
Abstract
It is shown very simply with a time domain analysis that shear always stabilizes positive or negative energy waves. If the mode energy changes sign as a function of position however, shear may destabilize the wave.
- Publication:
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Naval Research Lab. Report
- Pub Date:
- October 1975
- Bibcode:
- 1975nrl..reptX....M
- Keywords:
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- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Shear Properties;
- Plasma Physics