Vortex structures generated by the electrostatic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Details Vortex structures generated by the electrostatic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability Vortex structures generated by the electrostatic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992angeo..10..655n&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae (ISSN 0992-7689), vol. 10, no. 9, p. 655-667.

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Plasma Physics

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Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Plasma Turbulence, Vortices, Earth Ionosphere, Plasma Physics

Scientific paper

A laboratory experiment was carried out in order to study the nonlinear saturated stage of the cross-field electrostatic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a strongly magnetized plasma. The formation and propagation of relatively long-lived vortex-like structures in a background of wide-band turbulent fluctuations is demonstrated by a conditional sampling technique. The formation, propagation and initial decay of monopole type vortices was observed. The experimental conditions allow comparison with ionospheric observations of magnetic field aligned, flute-type disturbances.

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