Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in Beltrami fields

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4856-4862

  Ito, A ^a,c   Yoshida, Z ^a   Tatsuno, T ^a   Ohsaki, S ^a   Mahajan, S M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA FLOW;

BELTRAMI FIELDS;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 0036933482     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1518679     Document Type: Article

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