Can conduction induce convection? On the non-linear saturation of buoyancy instabilities in dilute plasmas

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 413, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1295-1310

  Mccourt, Michael ^a   Parrish, Ian J ^a   Sharma, Prateek ^a   Quataert, Eliot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conduction; Convection; Galaxies: clusters: general; Instabilities; MHD; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; BUOYANCY; GALAXIES; HEAT CONVECTION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA STABILITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TURBULENCE;

ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMA; COLLISIONALITY; CONDUCTION; CONVECTION; EXTERNAL SOURCES; GALAXIES: CLUSTERS: GENERAL; LINEAR SATURATION; NON LINEAR; STRONG TURBULENCE; THERMAL CONDUCTION;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 79955133853     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18216.x     Document Type: Article

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