Viscous instability in a non-neutral plasma

Autor: Priyanka Goswami, S. N. Bhattacharyya, K. P. Maheshwari, A. Sen
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Physics of Plasmas. 6:729-736
ISSN: 1089-7674
1070-664X
DOI: 10.1063/1.873309
Popis: The effect of viscosity on the stability of a non-neutral plasma is studied. Stability boundaries are obtained for two-dimensional electrostatic perturbations of long wavelengths. It is shown that a configuration with a monotone decreasing number density profile can be unstable when the plasma has viscosity.
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