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The large-Larmor-radius Rayleigh–Taylor instability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

M. FAGHIHI  and
F. EBRAHIMI
M. FAGHIHI
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Hafez Avenue, Tehran 15914, Iran
F. EBRAHIMI
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Hafez Avenue, Tehran 15914, Iran Present address: Alfvén Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Abstract

The effect of a large ion Larmor radius on the Rayleigh–Taylor instability is investigated using the Vlasov fluid model. The results are compared with an ideal magnetohydrodynamic model. It is found that this effect reduces the growth rate of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability with respect to the ideal magnetohydrodynamic growth rate.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , August 1998 , pp. 65 - 68
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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