Bifurcation analysis of the transverse drift-wave-envelope instability

DOI10.1063/1.865911zbMath0593.76057MaRDI QIDQ3723969

Karl H. Spatschek, E. W. Laedke, K. Zocha

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865911

zbMATH Keywords

transverse instability; inhomogeneous plasmas; bifurcation analysis; strong magnetic field; drift waves; packets; cold ions and massless electrons; generation mechanism of stable vortices; nonlinear evolution equation for drift waves; nonuniform plasma of; One-dimensionally localized and longitudinally stable wave; One-dimensionally localized and longitudinally stable wave packets; two- dimensional saturation; two-dimensionally localized vortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

76E25: Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows

76X05: Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow

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