Linear instability of z-pinch in plasma: viscous case

DOI10.1142/S0218202520500566zbMATH Open1464.35210arXiv2003.13427OpenAlexW3095172515MaRDI QIDQ3388784FDOQ3388784

Authors: Yan Guo, Ian Tice, Dongfen Bian 

Publication date: 7 May 2021

Published in: M\(^3\)AS. Mathematical Models \& Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The z-pinch is a classical steady state for the MHD model, where a confined plasma fluid is separated by vacuum, in the presence of a magnetic field which is generated by a prescribed current along the $z$ direction. We develop a scaled variational framework to study its stability in the presence of viscosity effect, and demonstrate that any such z-pinch is always unstable. We also establish the existence of a largest growing mode, which dominates the linear growth of the linear MHD system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13427

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zbMATH Keywords

vacuumviscositylinear instabilitycompressible MHD system\(z\)-pinch plasma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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