Short wavelength striations on expanding plasma clouds
Abstract
The growth and evolution of short wavelength (greater than ion gyroradius) flute modes on a plasma expanding across an ambient magnetic field have been actively studied in recent years, both by means of experiments in the laboratory as well as in space and through numerical simulations. We review the relevant observations and simulations results, discuss the instability mechanism and related linear theory, and describe recent work to bring experiments and theory into better agreement.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Workshop on Theoretical Geoplasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989tgp..work.....W
- Keywords:
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- Computerized Simulation;
- Earth Ionosphere;
- Geomagnetism;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Clouds;
- Plasmasphere;
- Mathematical Models;
- Striation;
- Geophysics