Fast growing instabilities for non-parallel flows

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.12.065MaRDI QIDQ653456zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Bret

Publication date 19 December 2011

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0813

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

Abstract: Unstable modes growing when two plasma shells cross over a background plasma at arbitrary angle $heta$, are investigated using a non-relativistic three cold fluids model. Parallel flows with $heta=0$ are slightly more unstable than anti-parallel ones with $heta=pi$. The case $heta=pi/2$ is as unstable as the $heta=0$ one, but the fastest growing modes are oblique. While the most unstable wave vector varies with orientation, its growth rate slightly evolves and there is no such thing as a stable configuration. A number of exact results can be derived, especially for the $heta=pi/2$ case.

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