DocumentCode
1182067
Title
Magnetically driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability with acceleration gradient
Author
Atchison, Walter L. ; Lemons, Don S.
Author_Institution
Plasma Phys. Group, Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
Volume
32
Issue
6
fYear
2004
Firstpage
2169
Lastpage
2174
Abstract
We investigate the stability properties of a slab of accelerating, current-carrying, cold, fluid when the accelerating J_ × B_ force is nonuniform throughout the slab and leads to a gradient in the slab acceleration. A nonuniform force that squeezes (stretches) the slab while accelerating it increases (decreases) the Magnetic-Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth rate. This effect can explain recent experiments on thin, magnetically driven, imploding liner shells.
Keywords
Rayleigh-Taylor instability; plasma magnetohydrodynamics; current-carrying cold fluid; magnetically driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability; slab acceleration gradient; slab stability; thin imploding liner shells; Acceleration; Aluminum; Gravity; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic fields; Magnetic liquids; Magnetic materials; Physics; Plasma materials processing; Slabs; Magnetic-Rayleigh–Taylor instability; Rayleigh–Taylor instability; Z-pinch instability;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0093-3813
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TPS.2004.838688
Filename
1366508
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