Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities in Astrophysics

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International Astronomical Union Union Astronomique Internationale, vol Author: Mats André. Space Plasma Physics: The Study of Solar-System In both regions the currents lead to plasma instabilities which generate electron density perturbations which have been observed by radar and-enctu probing.

There is a high correlation with the magnitude and direction of the electro- jet current. The medium is unstable when the. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Astronomy Plasma Astrophysics Ma These slides are based o of Balbus Hawley (), Hawley Balbus (), Balbus (), Kulsrud §, a presentation by E.

Knobloch, and Ji Balbus (). 3 37 Z-pinches Plasma theory Instabilities Tokamaks Plasma instabilities Plasmas exhibit a huge range of instabilities One of the challenges in fusion research is to find stable plasma configurations Understand the limits of performance Aim here is to: Show you the basic tools and concepts used to study plasma instabilities Introduce some of the jargon you'll see in papers.

Fluid description is employed to investigate the collisional current-filamentation instability (CFI) in a weakly ionized warm-beamreturn current system, taking into account both thermal pressure and space charge effects. Describing the equilibrium configuration and using the local approximation method, the dispersion relation (DR) is Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities in Astrophysics book in the presence of binary collision terms between.

UCLA BASIC PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY GROUP unstable and magnetized fireballs, R. Stenzel, Current Sheet Disruptions, Double Layers, Turbulence and Reconnection, R. Stenzel and W. Gekelman, in Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities in Astrophysics, M.

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(eds) Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities in Astrophysics. International Astronomical Union Union Astronomique Internationale, vol Springer, Dordrecht. https:doi. FIG. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities occur at two stages of the implosion of an ICF shell. The outer surface of the shell is unstable when the shell is accelerated inward by the pressure exerted by the beam-heated plasma.

The inner shell surface becomes unstable when the shell is slowed down by the hot spot gas. Ok)   Volume 80A, number 4 PHYSICS LETTERS RESISTIVE INSTABILITIES IN CURRENT-CARRYING MAGNETIZED PLASMAS Joseph E.

WILLETT and Hassan MEHDIAN Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MOUSA Received 28 April 8 December The stability of ion electrostatic waves with propagation vector nearly normal to a static magnetic field in a collisional plasma.

The instability causes flute-like structures to appear on the surface of the plasma, and thus the instability is also known as the flute instability. The interchange instability is a key issue in the field of fusion energy, where magnetic fields are used to confine a plasma in a volume surrounded by the field.

This paper develops the plasma physics of meteor trails and applies this theory to explain the origin and characteristics of radar measurements.

A companion paper in this same issue, entitled Plasma instabilities in meteor trails: 2-D simulation studies by Oppenheim et al. describes kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of meteor trails. Explosive phenomena such as internal disruptions in toroidal discharges and solar flares are difficult to explain in terms of linear instabilities.

A plasma approaching a linear stability limit can, however, become nonlinearly and explosively unstable, with noninfinitesimal perturbations even before the marginal state is reached. When these instabilities are excited, the quasilinear relaxation pushes the plasma back to the marginally stable state.

This is the qualitative reason why the observed solar wind as reported by Bale et al. [] and others is constrained by the marginal stability conditions for various instabilities. The 16th IAEA Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems-Theory of Plasma Instabilities (EPPI ) was It succeeded, in particular, at identifying current physics issues and gaps associated with energetic particles in ITER and future fusion power plants.

The dependence of the unstable AE spectrum on beam. 1 Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TNUnited States of America.

2 Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO BoxHefei, AnhuiChina. 3 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America.

4 General Atomics, PO BoxSan Diego, CAUnited States of America. 5 University of Wisconsin-Madison. But in these operating regimes the plasma is exposed to other macro-instabilities such as, e. the internal m n 1 1 kink mode, or tearing instabilities which typically grow on a resistive (i.

slow) time scale (m and n are the poloidal and the toroidal mode number, respectively). They can be linearly or nonlinearly unstable. Methods of Wave Theory in Dispersive Media. This book presents the main mathematical methods of description and general problems in the theory of linear waves in dispersive systems and media, including equilibrium and nonequilibrium waves.

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Based on fully kinetic model using drift-Maxwellian distributions and taking into account the transverse electrostatic field (TEF), it is shown that the current-filamentation instability (CFI) grows unexpectedly with the plasma temperature.

The growth is attributed to the decreasing of the TEF as. Since the current induced by the CME leads to the instability in the magnetic fields in chiral plasma, known as the chiral plasma instability (CPI) [30, 31], it is, e.ascribed as the possible.

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Plasmas are ionized gases that can be found in a hydrogen bomb explosion, the confinement chamber of an experimental fusion reactor, the solar. PDF | On Jan 1,A. Bud'ko and others published Growth of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in dynamic Z-pinches and plasma liners | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.

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A pinch is the compression of an electrically conducting filament by magnetic forces, or a device that does such. The conductor is usually a plasma, but could also be a solid or liquid s were the first type of device used for experiments in controlled nuclear fusion power.

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