Criteria for shear flow instability in the magnetopause boundary layer region

DOI10.1007/BF00572302zbMath0802.76030WikidataQ59889076 ScholiaQ59889076MaRDI QIDQ1312121

Gurbax S. Lakhina, Sanjaya Kumar Parhi

Publication date: 18 December 1994

Published in: Earth, Moon, and Planets (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Rayleigh's criterionAlfvén resonanceDoppler shifted real frequencyinflexion point theoremnecessary criterion for instabilitysemi-hyperbola theoremsufficient criterion for instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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Shear flow instability near the cusp resonance in magnetopause boundary layer

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