Field-Swelling Instability in Anisotropic Plasmas
- 22 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 48 (12) , 799-801
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.48.799
Abstract
Collisionless plasmas imbedded in a magnetic field and with the electron temperature transverse to the magnetic field larger than the longitudinal temperature can be subject to an instability that produces transport of transverse electron thermal energy into the regions where the magnetic field is weakened by the perturbation while the plasma motion is decoupled from that of the magnetic field lines.Keywords
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