Thin-shell instability in collisionless plasma
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Thin-shell instability in collisionless plasma.
Thin-shell instability is one process which can generate entangled structures in astrophysical plasma on collisional (fluid) scales. It is driven by a spatially varying imbalance between the ram pressure of the inflowing upstream plasma and the downstream's thermal pressure at a nonplanar shock. Here we show by means of a particle-in-cell simulation that an analog process can destabilize a thin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.031101