On the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the plasma layer of the earth's magnetosphere.
Abstract
The effect of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the boundaries of the plasma sheet in the nightside magnetosphere is studied within the framework of a multilayered model. A generalized dispersion equation is obtained for the frequencies of natural oscillations in the layer system, taking into account the compressibility of the plasma.
- Publication:
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Akademiia Nauk Gruzii Soobshcheniia
- Pub Date:
- February 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985SoGru.117..281K
- Keywords:
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- Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability;
- Magnetospheric Instability;
- Plasma Layers;
- Space Plasmas;
- Atmospheric Models;
- Atmospheric Stratification;
- Compressibility Effects;
- Night Sky;
- Geophysics;
- Earth Magnetosphere:Plasma;
- Plasma:Earth Magnetosphere