Dissipative instability of the MHD tangential discontinuity in magnetized plasmas with anisotropic viscosity and thermal conductivity

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 56, Issue PART 3, 1996, Pages 285-306

  Ruderman, M S ^a,b   Verwichte, E ^a   Erdelyi R ^a,c   Goossens, M ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; STABILITY CRITERIA; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ VELOCITY; THRESHOLD VELOCITY;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 0030265143     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022377800019279     Document Type: Article

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