Instability in a magnetised collisional plasma driven by a heat flow or a current

Autor:	Bell, Anthony, Kingham, Robert, Watkins, Henry, Matthews, James
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Physics - Plasma Physics Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1088/1361-6587/ab8e1b
Popis:	We solve the linearised Vlasov-Fokker-Planck (VFP) equation to show that heat flow or an electrical current in a magnetized collisional plasma is unstable to the growth of a circularly polarised transverse perturbation to a zeroth order uniform magnetic field. The Braginskii (1965) transport equations exhibit the same instability in the appropriate limit. This is relevant to laser-produced plasmas, inertial fusion energy (IFE) and to dense cold interstellar plasmas. Comment: Accepted for publication in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14653 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv