Waves at Plasma-Magnetic Field Interface
- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 11 (3), 686-687
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1691977
Abstract
It is shown that the velocity discontinuity between a plasmavacuum interface is always unstable to small perturbations when the effect of gravity is taken into account.Keywords
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