Ionospheric plasma cloud dynamics via regularized contour dynamics. I. Stability and nonlinear evolution of one-contour models

DOI10.1063/1.864225zbMath0538.76049OpenAlexW1996671397MaRDI QIDQ3325309

Norman J. Zabusky, Sidney L. Ossakow, Edward A. II Overman

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864225

zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilityrescalingfingersnonlinear evolutionamplitude growth and cascade-down phenomenacircular clouddeformable dielectricincompressible ionospheric plasma cloudPerturbations grow and evolve into striationsregularized contour dynamical modelsingle mode excitationsymmetry breaking electric field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Geophysics (86A99)

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